The Essential Dolly Parton

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Dumb Blonde
  2:31
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Just Because I’m a Woman
  3:04
  3.5 ★
• 3
  My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
  3:28
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
  3:09
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Joshua
  3:05
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Coat of Many Colors
  3:03
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Touch Your Woman
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 8
  My Tennessee Mountain Home
  3:07
  3.7 ★
• 9
  Jolene
  2:40
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Please Don’t Stop Loving Me
  2:47
  3.4 ★
• 11
  I Will Always Love You
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Love Is Like a Butterfly
  2:21
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The Bargain Store
  2:43
  3.2 ★
• 14
  The Seeker
  3:14
  2.5 ★
• 15
  We Used To
  3:13
  3.4 ★
• 16
  All I Can Do
  2:26
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Light of a Clear Blue Morning
  4:56
  3.5 ★
• 18
  It’s All Wrong, but It’s All Right
  3:17
  2.5 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Here You Come Again
  2:56
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Two Doors Down
  3:04
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Heart‐Breaker
  3:30
  3.5 ★
• 4
  I Really Got the Feeling
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You’re the Only One
  3:19
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Starting Over Again
  3:59
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Old Flames Can’t Hold a Candle to You
  3:24
  3.8 ★
• 8
  9 to 5
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 9
  But You Know I Love You
  3:18
  2.5 ★
• 10
  Single Women
  3:44
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Heart‐Break Express
  3:13
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Islands in the Stream
  4:09
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Save the Last Dance for Me
  3:52
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Tennessee Homesick Blues
  3:23
  2.5 ★
• 15
  God Won’t Get You
  4:12
• 16
  To Know Him Is to Love Him
  3:50
  3.7 ★
• 17
  Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
  2:33
  3.8 ★
• 18
  Rockin’ Years
  3:27
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Shine
  5:11
  3.5 ★

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Release credits

• Al Pachucki
  recording [2, 5-7]
• Albert Lee
  acoustic guitar [16]
• Albhy Galuten
  producer [12]
• Barry Gibb
  producer [12]
• Bob Ferguson
  producer [2, 5-9, 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
  arranger [16], guitar [9, 11], producer [16-17], vocal [1.1-2, 1.5-13, 1.15, 2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.10-14, 2.16-18]
• Dolores Edgin
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Doug Sax
  mastering [16]
• Emmylou Harris
  vocal [16]
• Fred Foster
  producer [1]
• 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]
• Mike Shockley
  task [7]
• Mort Thomasson
  recording [1]
• Porter Wagoner
  arranger [16], producer [16], vocal [10]
• Ricky Van Shelton
  performer [18], vocal [18]
• Roy Shockley
  task [5-8, 16]
• 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], recording [7-8, 16]
• Tommy Strong
  task [1]
• Tony Smith
  producer [17]
• Show all credits (42)

Issues

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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2005
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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2005
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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x CD
  2010
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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  3x CD
  2010
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  The Essential Dolly Parton

  2x Digital Media
  7 January 2011