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Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt And Emmylou Harris Album)
''Trio'' is a collaborative album by American singers Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris. It was released on March 2, 1987, by Warner Bros. Records. The album has platinum certification in the U.S. for sales of one million copies, and has total worldwide sales of approximately four million. A second collaborative album, ''Trio II'', was released in 1999. Background Longtime friends and admirers of one another, Parton, Harris, and Ronstadt first attempted to record an album together in the mid-1970s, but scheduling conflicts and other difficulties (including the fact that the three women all recorded for different record labels) prevented its release. Some of the fruits of those aborted 1970s recording sessions did make it onto the women's respective solo albums. " Mr. Sandman" and "Evangeline" appeared on Harris' album ''Evangeline'' and Parton's "My Blue Tears" was included on Ronstadt's 1982 album '' Get Closer''. Rodney Crowell's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily as a country music, country musician. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton's debut album, ''Hello, I'm Dolly'', was released in 1967, commencing a career spanning 60 years and Dolly Parton albums discography, 49 studio albums. Her forty-ninth solo studio album, ''Rockstar (Dolly Parton album), Rockstar'' (2023), became her highest-charting Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 album, peaking at number-three. Described as a "country legend", Parton has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Her music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 single (music), singles reach No.1 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' country music charts, a reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildflowers (Dolly Parton Song)
"Wildflowers" is a song written by Dolly Parton, which was included on the Grammy-winning, multi-Platinum 1987 album ''Trio'' and recorded by Parton with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. The original recording featured an autoharp, acoustic guitar (played by Harris) and fiddle, and was arranged to sound like an old fashioned Appalachian folk song. It was the fourth single released from the ''Trio'' album, and reached #6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in July 1988. In 2008, the recording was played at a reception by the Texas State Democratic Party, honoring former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 as the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson. She had previously been Second Lady of the United States from 1961 to 196 .... Johnson's love of wild flowers was well known, and she had long championed the planting of them along the U.S. hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulder To Birmingham
"Boulder to Birmingham" is a song written by Emmylou Harris and Bill Danoff which first appeared on Harris's 1975 album ''Pieces of the Sky.'' It has served as something of a signature tune for the artist and recounts her feelings of grief in the years following the death of country rock star and mentor Gram Parsons. Early in her career, Harris toured with Gram Parsons and sang on his two solo albums '' GP'' and the posthumously released ''Grievous Angel''. The song is known for its chorus: "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham/I would hold my life in his saving grace/I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham/If I thought I could see, I could see your face." Harris did not write again about Parsons' death in such a direct way until "The Road", a track from her 2011 album '' Hard Bargain'', although "Michelangelo" from ''Red Dirt Girl'' may be about Parsons too. Critical reception In 2024, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the song at #153 on its 200 Greatest Country Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Will Always Love You
"I Will Always Love You" is a song written and originally recorded in 1973 by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. Written as a farewell to her business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, expressing Parton's decision to pursue a solo career, the country single was released in 1974. The song was a commercial success for Parton, twice reaching the top spot of the US ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart: first in June 1974, then again in October 1982, with a re-recording for ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' soundtrack. Whitney Houston recorded a Pop-ballad arrangement of the song for the 1992 film '' The Bodyguard''. Houston's version peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for a then-record-breaking 14 weeks. The single was certified diamond by the RIAA, making Houston's first diamond single, the third female artist who had both a diamond single and a diamond album, and becoming the best-selling single by a woman in the U.S. The song was an enormous succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Daddy
"To Daddy"" is a country song, written by Dolly Parton. It was performed by Emmylou Harris in the 1970s, included on her album ''Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town'' and released as a single. Having reached number three on Billboard's Hot Country chart, Harris's version is the most familiar to most people. Content ''To Daddy'' is said to describe the pain Parton's mother experienced as she ignored her husband's occasional affairs and his lack of affection. It relates to how her mother, in having the family's best interest at heart and to be the best possible mother she could to her children, that she stood by her husband through difficult times. (Unlike Parton's parents, however, who remained together, the mother in the song ultimately leaves the family.) In the song, related from the vantage point of a teenage girl, her mother seems to not care that her husband is neglectful and cold, concluding each verse with, "if she did, she never did say so to Daddy". In the final verse, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Many Colors
In the Hebrew Bible, the coat of many colors or () is the name for the garment that the Bible, Biblical Joseph (Genesis), Joseph owned; it was given to him by his father Jacob in Vayeshev (Book of Genesis, Genesis 37). Biblical narrative Joseph's father, Jacob (also called Israel), favored him and gave Joseph the coat as a gift; as a result, he was Jealousy, envied by his brothers, who saw the special coat as an indication that Joseph would assume family leadership. His brothers' suspicion grew when Joseph told them of his two dreams (Genesis 37:11) in which all the brothers bowed down to him. The narrative tells that his brothers plotted against him when he was 17, and would have killed him had not the eldest brother Reuben (Bible), Reuben interposed. He persuaded them instead to throw Joseph into a pit and secretly planned to rescue him later. However, while Reuben was absent, the others planned to sell him to a company of Ishmaelites, Ishmaelite merchants. When the passing M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Like A Wheel
''Heart Like a Wheel'' is the fifth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in November 1974. It was Ronstadt's last album to be released by Capitol Records. At the time of its recording, Ronstadt had already moved to Asylum Records and released her first album there; due to contractual obligations, though, ''Heart Like a Wheel'' was released by Capitol. ''Heart Like a Wheel'' reached the top of the ''Billboard'' 200, becoming her first number one album in the United States. The lead single, a cover of Betty Everett's " You're No Good," peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. At the 18th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Album Of The Year, while her version of " I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love with You" won the award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. Widely considered Ronstadt's breakthrough album, it was selected by the Library of Congress to be inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2013. In 2020, it was ranked number 49 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
I Can't Help It may refer to: *I Can't Help It (film), ''I Can’t Help It'' (film), an upcoming film based on the novel ''The Ax'' by Donald E. Westlake, Donald Westlake (English title: ''No Other Choice'') *I Can't Help It (album), ''I Can't Help It'' (album), a 1992 compilation album by Betty Carter *I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You), a country song, originally by Hank Williams *I Can't Help It (Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John song), "I Can't Help It" (Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John song) *I Can't Help It (Bananarama song), "I Can't Help It" (Bananarama song) *I Can't Help It (Michael Jackson song), "I Can't Help It" (Michael Jackson song) *I Can't Help It (T.I. song), "I Can't Help It" (T.I. song) *"I Can't Help It", a song by Buddy Miller featuring Emmylou Harris from ''Poison Love'', 1997 {{Disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple Dreams
''Simple Dreams'' is the eighth studio album by the American singer Linda Ronstadt, released in 1977 by Asylum Records. It includes several of her best-known songs, including her cover of the Rolling Stones song "Tumbling Dice" (featured in the film ''FM'') and her version of the Roy Orbison song "Blue Bayou", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. The album also contains covers of the Buddy Holly song " It's So Easy!" (a top-5 hit) and the Warren Zevon songs "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (another top-40 hit) and " Carmelita". The album was the best-selling studio album of her career, and at the time was the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind only Carole King's ''Tapestry''). It was her first album since ''Don't Cry Now'' without long-time musical collaborator Andrew Gold, though it features several of the other Laurel Canyon-based session musicians who appeared on her prior albums, including guitarists Dan Dugmore and Waddy Wachtel, bassist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems
Rare may refer to: * Rare, a particular temperature of meat * Something infrequent or scarce, see Scarcity :* Rare species, a conservation category in biology designating the scarcity of an organism and implying a threat to its viability Rare or RARE may also refer to: Acronyms * Ram Air Rocket Engine, a U.S. Navy program of the 1950s *Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition Music * Rare (Northern Irish band), a 1990s trip hop group * Rare (Serbian band), an alternative rock band Albums * ''Rare'' (Asia album), 1999 * ''Rare'' (David Bowie album), 1982 * ''Rare'' (Hundredth album), 2017 * ''Rare'' (Selena Gomez album) or the title song (see below), 2020 * '' Rare!'', by Crack the Sky, 1994 * '' Rare, Vol. 1'', by Ultravox, 1993 * '' Rare, Vol. 2'', by Ultravox, 1994 * ''Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989–1993'', by Moby, 1996 * ''Rare'', by Xiu Xiu, 2012 Songs * "Rare" (Gwen Stefani song), 2016 * "Rare" (Selena Gomez song), 2020 * "Rare", by Man Overboard from ''Man Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palms Of Victory
"Palms of Victory", also called "Deliverance Will Come", "The Blood-washed Pilgrim", and "The Way-worn Traveler", is a Christian hymn that appears to have been written in 1836 by John B. Matthias, a Methodist Episcopal minister in New York State. Authorship "Palms of Victory" appears to have been written by someone in particular, rather than having been the development of a community of folk singers, because it is a sophisticated song with complex verses that tell a consistent story. George Pullen Jackson notes that spiritual folk songs arising from a community feature a "progressive simplification of the text". In 1886, William McDonald published ''Songs of Joy and Gladness'', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Kentucky Girl (Emmylou Harris Album)
''Blue Kentucky Girl'' is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1979. The album features Harris delving into more traditional country than the country-rock sound of her previous releases. Songs include work by Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons. Rodney Crowell's "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" featured harmonies by Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt, and came out of the women's ill-fated 1978 recording sessions, where they first attempted to record a "trio" album (nearly a full decade before they actually succeeded in doing so). Critical reception Jason Ankeny of Allmusic in a 3.5/5 stars review, found "In response to criticism that her records weren't "country" enough, Harris recorded Blue Kentucky Girl, one of her most traditional outings. Relying on a more acoustic sound, the album largely forsakes contemporary pop songs in favor of standard country fare." Bruce Smith of the New York Daily News remarked in his review, "Alabama born Emmylo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
