Personnel includes: Dolly Parton (vocals); Larry Carlton, Reggie Young, Jeff Baxter, Martin K. Walsh (guitar); Joe McGuffee (steel guitar); Sonny Osborne (banjo, background vocals); Kim S. Hutchincroft (baritone saxophone); Tom Saviano (saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet); William Reichenbach (trombone); Larry Knechtel (piano); Gregg Perry (organ); Ron Oates (keyboards); Ian Underwood (synthesizer); Leland Sklar, Abraham Laborial (bass); Eddie Bayers, Richard Schlosser (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Bobby Osborne, Anita Ball, Denise Mayanelli (background vocals).
Producers: Mike Post, Gregg Perry.
Reissue producer: Mike Ragogna.
Engineers include: Larry Carlton, Paul Dobbe, Marshall Morgan.
Recorded at Audio Media, Nashville, Tennessee & Sound Labs, Hollywood, California.
Digitally remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).
This is part of the Buddah Original Masters Series.
Personnel: Dolly Parton (vocals); Mary Ellen Quinn (vocals); John Goux (guitar, slide guitar); Jeff Baxter, Larry Carlton, Marty Walsh, Reggie Young (guitar); Joe McGuffee (steel guitar); Sonny Osborne (banjo, background vocals); Tom Saviano (saxophone); Kim Hutchcroft (baritone saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet); William Reichenbach (trombone); Larry Knechtel (piano); Gregg Perry (organ, typewriter); Ron Oates (keyboards); Ian Underwood (synthesizer); Richard Schlosser, Eddie Bayers (drums); Leonard Castro (percussion); Anita Ball, Joey Scarbury, Stephanie Spruill, Richard Dennison, Bobby Osborne, Denise Maynelli (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Robyn Flans.
Recording information: Audio Media, Nashville, TN; Sound Lab, Hollywood, CA; Sound Labs, Hollywood, CA; Studio 335, Hollywood, CA; Western Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
Photographer: Ron Slenzak.
Arrangers: Dolly Parton; Mike Post; Gregg Perry.
Dolly Parton was a crossover superstar when she recorded this album--the infectious title song, which she wrote, was the theme from the movie of the same name, in which she made her acting debut. Not suprisingly, much of the album is chart oriented state-of-the-art early '80s pop fluff, but Parton still finds time to flash her country and folk roots.
Standout tracks include a terrific cover of Mel Tillis' "Detroit City," a riveting version of Woody Guthrie's classic migrant worker anthem "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)," a surprisingly fresh take on "House of the Rising Sun," and an impassioned run through of Merle Travis' "Dark As a Dungeon." minimize