Dolly Parton: Blue Smoke
Holly Gleason, Paste, 13 May 2014
BEFORE DOLLY PARTON was country music's Mae West, she was a crystal-voiced songwriter who captured Appalachia's tiniest moments like fireflies in a jar. On Blue Smoke, which straddles her amusement-park sexuality and austere mountain sense, Parton's voice most captivates on her 'Love Is Like A Butterfly'-invoking 'Miss You-Miss Me' and the noir-ish, dobro-drenched 'If I Had Wings'.
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