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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.
My Tennessee Mountain Home Lyrics
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.
(He received a sack of cornmeal as payment.) "Down on Music Row," tells the story of her first days in Nashville as she tried to get a record deal. In the song, she offers thanks to legendary guitarist Chet Atkins and producer Bob Ferguson who helped her. Largely a concept album about her childhood in rural East Tennessee, the album begins with a recitation of the first letter Parton wrote to her parents shortly after moving from her hometown of Sevierville, Tennessee to Nashville in 1964. The final cut on the album, "Down on Music Row", recounts her first days on Nashville's Music Row, trying to get a record deal, and thanking those who helped her along the way, making specific mention of Chet Atkins and RCA's Bob Ferguson. My Tennessee Mountain Home was written and recorded by Dolly Parton in 1973 as a tribute to her childhood memories of growing up in rural Tennessee, but I much prefer Maria Muldaur’s version. Maria Muldaur was an American folk/blues/country singer, best known for her quirky 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis.” I remember listening to her in my dorm room and fellow boomers may recognize the album cover.
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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.
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."
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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!
Today was certainly beautiful – a nice refreshing breeze, sunny but not too hot. "My Tennessee Mountain Home" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. Using imagery from her rural childhood in Tennessee , the song served as the centerpiece of her 1973 concept album My Tennessee Mountain Home. It was released as a single in December 1972, and reached number 15 on the U.S. country singles chart. Partongrew up in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, as one of 12 children.
Dolly Parton herself re-recorded the song on her 1994 live album Heartsongs. Parton released "My Tennessee Mountain Home" as a single in 1972, and it reached No. 15 on the US Hot Country Singles chart. The song now serves as a theme song for her theme park Dollywood.
The first time Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones all recorded together in the studio was when they backed American singer PJ Proby on his Three Week Hero album. My Tennessee Mountain Home is the eleventh solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on April 2, 1973, by RCA Victor. The house pictured on the album cover was the house in which the Parton family lived during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It just reminded me of a summer day….and we don’t have many left!
"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.
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.
Like you, I don’t like screaming and loud songs. My mom heard Hank Williams, Jr. once and said “that’s not country – I sing better than that, his father would roll over in his grave.” I like Willie Nelson as well – not every song but the softer ones. I liked the old Kenny Rogers too and his songs with Dolly Parton as well. Dolly Parton’s slow songs were okay, if she didn’t jazz them up too much and make them loud. "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" by Elton John was written for the sister of actress Rene Russo.
And this last tank of gas used was mostly errands and running back and forth to the grocery store. I have tried to check their ads as well to get the best deals for stocking up. I have another trip, maybe two to make, but they are easy to lug in and not the canned items and oatmeal which were heavy and my mouse looks like a cyclone hit it! But, when it is snowing or raining, I won’t have to go out. The paper towels jack-up in price is ridiculous – they know everyone needs to buy paper towels so they can get away with it.
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