Title: Dolly goes retro -- with disastrous results
Product review: After the last two Sugar Hill albums, with terrific bluegrass bands and stripped-down arrangements, Parton goes back to the over-produced Nashville sound on this one, and it's a clunker. Horrible lyrics ("hearts that are torn between what's wrong and ain't" Huh?), breathily speaking lyrics in that passe little-girl persona, and one of the most unintentionally hilarious pieces of cornpone ever in "These Old Bones," which has to be heard to be believed. Everyone I play it for sits there slack-jawed, unable to believe what they're hearing. Add the heavenly choirs, the heavy arrangements, and some dreadful covers, and you've got one big step backwards to the kind of music with which Parton had stalled. Dolly's gone country again, and if that's what you like, you'll eat this up. ...
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