At last!

One of the biggest frustrations about the music industry has been BMG/RCA's atrocious treatment of the back catalog of Dolly Parton. Go to virtually any comprehensive music store (or check Amazon) and you will find literally dozens of "best of" compilations of Parton all containing "Here You Come Again," "I Will Always Love You," "Nine to Five" and several other hits repackaged over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

A few years ago BMG/RCA relaunched Buddha records as a reissue label and two long out of print album gems, "Coat of Many Colors," and "Jolene" were finally put out on CD. It was hoped that this would signify a new trend.

Alas the reissues stopped for a while (aside for a pair of her pop albums and, of course, several MORE compilations with the same songs over and over again). Luckily we now how another gem making its very first appearance on CD.

This is actually Parton's solo debut, and while it doesn't show off her songwrting talents as much as subsequent albums would (only a small handful of the songs here were written by Parton) it does show the world that there is more to Parton than the giggly Mae West meets Barbie image that she has acquired over the year and, more importantly, that there is more to her than the generic sounding slick pop sound that made her a mint in the late 70's and early 80's. Fans of REAL country will want to check this one out pronto as will anyone else who wants to encourage a more imaginative reissue program than BMG/RCA has generally been doing with the Parton catalog.