The Essential Dolly Parton

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Dumb Blonde
  2:29
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Just Because I’m a Woman
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 3
  My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
  3:08
• 5
  Joshua
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Coat of Many Colors
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Touch Your Woman
  2:41
  5.0 ★
• 8
  My Tennessee Mountain Home
  3:07
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Jolene
  2:40
  4.3 ★
• 10
  Please Don’t Stop Loving Me

  Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner
  2:46
  4.5 ★
• 11
  I Will Always Love You
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Love Is Like a Butterfly
  2:20
  5.0 ★
• 13
  The Bargain Store
  2:42
  5.0 ★
• 14
  The Seeker (new edit)
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 15
  We Used To
  3:11
  4.5 ★
• 16
  All I Can Do
  2:25
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Light of a Clear Blue Morning
  4:56
  5.0 ★
• 18
  It’s All Wrong, but It’s All Right
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Here You Come Again
  2:54
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Two Doors Down
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Heartbreaker
  3:29
  5.0 ★
• 4
  I Really Got the Feeling
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 5
  You’re the Only One
  3:19
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Starting Over Again
  3:58
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 8
  9 to 5
  3:00
  4.5 ★
• 9
  But You Know I Love You
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Single Women
  3:44
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Heartbreak Express
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Islands in the Stream

  Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
  4:09
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Save the Last Dance for Me

  Dolly Parton with The Jordanaires
  3:50
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Tennessee Homesick Blues
  3:23
• 15
  God Won’t Get You
  4:13
• 16
  To Know Him Is to Love Him

  Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt
  3:49
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Rockin’ Years

  Dolly Parton & Ricky Van Shelton
  3:26
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Shine
  5:10
  5.0 ★

More by Dolly Parton

Jolene

Jolene 1974

Broken Angels

Broken Angels 2025

Rockstar

Rockstar 2023

God Only Knows (Team Timbo remix)

God Only Knows (Team Timbo remix) 2019

God Only Knows

God Only Knows 2019

Dumplin’

Dumplin’ 2018

Release credits

• Albert Lee
  acoustic guitar [16]
• Albhy Galuten
  producer [12]
• Barry Gibb
  producer [12]
• Bob Ferguson
  producer [9, 11-12]
• Bobby Dyson
  bass [9, 11]
• Bobby Thompson
  banjo [9, 11]
• Buck Trent
  banjo [9, 11]
• Dave Kirby
  guitar [9, 11]
• David Lindley
  Hawaiian guitar [16], mandolin [16]
• Dolly Parton
  guitar [9, 11], producer [17], vocal [2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.10-14, 2.16-18, 1.1-2, 1.5-13, 1.15]
• Dolores Edgin
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Doug Sax
  mastering [16]
• Emmylou Harris
  vocal [16]
• George Massenburg
  producer [16], recording [16]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  piano [9, 11]
• Hurshel Wiginton
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Jimmy Colvard
  electric guitar [9], guitar [11]
• Joe Babcock
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Johnny Gimble
  fiddle [9, 11]
• June Page
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Karl Richardson
  producer [12]
• Kenny Edwards
  acoustic bass guitar [16]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Kenny Rogers
  vocal [12]
• Kent Wells
  producer [17]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Linda Ronstadt
  vocal [16]
• Mack Magaha
  fiddle [9, 11]
• Porter Wagoner
  vocal [10]
• Ricky Van Shelton
  performer [18], vocal [18]
• Russ Kunkel
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Ry Cooder
  guitar [16]
• Sharon Rice
  assistant [16]
• Stu Basore
  steel guitar [9, 11]
• Tom Pick
  engineer [9, 11]
• Tony Smith
  producer [17]
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Issues

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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2005
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  T
  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2005
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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2010
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  T
  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x Digital Media
  7 January 2011