My Tennessee Mountain Home

by Dolly Parton

My Tennessee Mountain Home cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1973
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:18
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This deeply nostalgic, semi-autobiographical concept album finds the country icon reflecting on her impoverished, rural upbringing in the Great Smoky Mountains. Eschewing the heavily orchestrated Nashville Sound for slightly more stripped-down, acoustic-leaning arrangements, the record highlights Parton's unparalleled storytelling ability and crystalline vocal delivery. It remains a poignant, defining masterpiece of 1970s country music, cementing her status as a profoundly gifted songwriter.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, melodic, mountains, domestic, nostalgia

Tracklist

  1. The Letter (2:00)
  2. I Remember (3:40)
  3. Old Black Kettle (2:30)
  4. Daddy's Working Boots (2:50)
  5. Dr. Robert F. Thomas (2:34)
  6. In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (3:25)
  7. My Tennessee Mountain Home (3:06)
  8. The Wrong Direction Home (2:25)
  9. Back Home (2:41)
  10. The Better Part Of Life (3:12)
  11. Down On Music Row (2:55)

Credits

  • Dolly Parton - primary artist, written-by
  • The Nashville Edition - backing vocals
  • Buck Trent - banjo [electric]
  • Bobby Dyson - bass
  • Pete Drake - dobro, steel guitar
  • Jerry Carrigan - drums
  • Johnny Gimble - fiddle
  • Mack Magaha - fiddle

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