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Jo above said the woods reminded her of of her home in northern Florida, but the entrance sign says it is an example of a “Carolinian” deciduous forest which stretches from the Carolinas to southern Ontario. I love Patsy Cline – and some of the older country tunes, even Kenny Rodgers. I don’t care for the newer country stuff, which always seems to be playing at hairdressers. “Summer is doing a slow exit” I like that phrase.
We square danced once in grade school grade 8 which I thought great fun and I could envision people square dancing to the instrumental part. I am frustrated by the prices on everything. My Comcast new charges skyrocketed but that is not something I would get rid of, the landline keeps going up every month or so. I got gasoline the other day and for between 1/4 and 1/2 tank, it was $43.00!
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Love the porch with the pair of white rocking chairs, and the wide woodland path that reminds me of the woods on our place in Northwest Florida where I grew up. Although the lyrics are lovely, I find myself focusing on the instrumentals the more I listen, but just for fun I’ve set the lyrics to pictures. The stories behind "Whole Of The Moon" and "Red Army Blues," and why rock music has "outlived its era of innovation."
My parents listened to country western music, the authentic stuff, like Hank Williams, Sr. or Hank Snow and the women country western crooners like Patsy Cline. There are some bluegrass tapes here in the house – I’ve not heard them in years. I like your illustrations – very clever how you matched them up. I seem to remember your deck was white and you had blue tables on it and I see a little bit of pink rose peeking out in the corner. Dolly re-recorded this for her 1994 live album, Heartsongs. The song has become one of Parton's best known compositions, and was later covered by Maria Muldaur on her 1973 eponymous solo album, and by Elisabeth Andreassen on the 2005 album Short Stories.
My Tennessee Mountain Home Album Information
So pour yourself a glass of iced tea or lemonade, pull up a chair and have a listen to the best fiddle/banjo chorus ever. The title track became one of Parton's better-known compositions. My Tennessee Mountain Home is one of the rootsiest records of Dolly Parton's career. With its affectionate homages and salutes to her childhood in Tennessee, the record is a direct and moving slice of mountain music that isn't dressed up in cosmopolitan production. Parton wrote every song on the record, creating a loose, musical autobiography with its 11 songs. I remember Maria Muldaur’s “Midnight at the Oasis” as it seemed it was on the radio every time I turned it on back in the first year of college, same time as you.
I’ve heard it’s good for bird watching and has a white snowy owl in residence. At the entrance there is a sign which says it’s an example of a Carolinian forest. I just took the picture at the entranceway, it looked very peaceful.
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It might also have something to do with the crickets and fireflies which always herald August to me and the waning days of summer when evening shadows fall. She had a very clear distinctive voice, much better than Dolly Parton although she wrote the song. I couldn’t find a free photo of a porch swing – you know the kind that is hanging with chains on a southern veranda, so I just used mine. Same with the honeysuckle, and the woods pictures which are from a woodland trail in one of the parks here which I intend to explore some day when tick season is over. I just took the picture at the entrance to the trail as it seemed very peaceful and it seemed to fit the song.
Bernie Taupin, who wrote the lyrics, was married to Rene's sister, Toni. Dolly's uncle Louis snapped a photo of the real-life Parton home in Locust Ridge, where the singer grew up with her 11 siblings, for the album cover. While fans can visit a replica of the tiny cabin at Dollywood, which features some of the Partons' original furniture and other mementoes, the actual home still stands in Locust Ridge. Dolly's parents sold the cabin in the '70s, but she bought it back in the '80s and restored it with the help of her brother Bobby. Sign up for daily stories delivered to your inbox. There’s a bluegrass feel to it and while neither is really in my wheelhouse, I usually prefer bluegrass to the more twangy, Nashville country.
When writing her 1973 concept albumMy Tennessee Mountain Home, she drew on her experiences of growing up poor in rural Appalachia. "My Tennessee Mountain Home" serves as the centerpiece of the record and highlights memories of Parton's, such as holding hands on a porch swing, watching fireflies, and walking home from church with those you love. In fact, the cover ofMy Tennessee Mountain Homealbum is the house that Parton and her family lived in throughout her childhood. The album is home to other great tracks that tell the story of Parton's life. She wrote "Dr. Robert F. Thomas" in honor of the mountain doctor who delivered her in her her Tennessee cabin.
"Surf City" was recorded by Jan & Dean, but written by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Folk/blues singer Maria Muldaur recorded this for her self-titled solo album in 1973. It was also covered by the Earl Scruggs Revue in 1974, Rose Maddox in 1977, and Norwegian-Swedish singer Elisabeth Andreassen in 2005. Bob Ferguson, who wrote the hit country tunes "Wings Of A Dove" and "The Carroll County Accident," is listed as Dolly's producer on all of her RCA albums through the mid-'70s, but Porter Wagoner disputed his credit.
You'll hear Dolly sing the song as you walk up the steps to visit the replica of her real life Tennesee Mountain Homeinside Dollywood. I admire you stocking up like that for winter. I find I am buying bulk or duplicates or triplicates when things go on sale, as I’m tired of paying those crazy prices. I got 3 packs of paper towels the other day, for $6 as opposed to $9.
Wagoner, Dolly's singing partner on a string of hit duet albums, said he was the actual producer but Ferguson was given credit due to the label's rules against using outside producers. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. Jo, the woods are actually a picture I took of a woodland trail in one of our big city parks. One of these days I’m going to walk through it, once tick season is over.
A box of M&M (it’s a small chain grocery store of prepackaged foods – one aisle) haddock fish fillets was always $16 and it’s now $22? When I made a comment about the 6 dollar increase, the owner/clerk gave me a lecture about the Ukrainian war and wheat prices etc. ” I think these companies are just gouging people. If it wasn’t Mom’s favorite I would have left it in the store. I find myself shopping the flyers more and more and buying multiples. I hadn’t thought of her in years until I was researching the song history and saw the album cover.
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