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Dolly Parton - Eagle When She Flies Audio CD

A fair review of the Dolly Parton "Eagle When She Flies" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Dolly Parton reviews here, or go back to the Dolly Parton tabs.

Dolly Parton Band: Dolly Parton
Title: Eagle When She Flies
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Release Date: 2003-10-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: If You Need Me 2: Rockin' Years - Dolly Parton, Ricky Van Shelton, Ricky Van Shelton 3: Country Road 4: Silver and Gold 5: Eagle When She Flies 6: Best Woman Wins - Lorrie Morgan, Dolly Parton 7: What a Heartache 8: Runaway Feelin' 9: Dreams Do Come True 10: Family 11: Wildest Dreams

Great
No one can match Dolly on the range she can get her voice when she sings. Awsome.


I Hear it is Great
I bought tis CD for a gift for a friend that has heard it and says that it is great.


Fabulous!
Am so glad to have found it. I have been looking for this CD forever.


One of Dolly's finest albums
Rocking years was originally intended to be a duet with George Jones but he left the label so Ricky van Shelton became the duet partner. Dolly recorded for Columbia during the late eighties and early nineties, during which time she had three number one country hits during that period, the last of them (Rocking years) coming from this album. The success of the single may have owed more to Ricky (who was fashionable at the time) than Dolly, as American country radio only showed limited interest in the other singles from this album. Despite a lack of airplay, the album sold in vast quantities (well over a million in the USA) and deservedly so.

The songs are mostly excellent, though I confess that the lyrics of Family stretch credibility to the limit. Dolly says that the family is a strong unit and suggests (more eloquently than I can describe) that people will forgive other family members anything. I wish families were as united and strong as Dolly sings, but it's not my experience and I don't know of any family that lives up to the ideals expressed in the song. Maybe Dolly was just doing some wishful thinking when she wrote the song, or maybe her family really is that strong.

The other songs are much more realistic. The two other country hits, Eagle when she flies (an inspiration to women) and Silver and gold (a song about love being more important than money) are among Dolly's finest songs ever. Dolly original recorded What a heartache for the Rhinestone soundtrack but re-recorded it for this album and again for her more recent Halos and horns, so although it wasn't a single it might sound familiar to you, although each recording is distinctive.

Best woman wins, a song about two women fighting over a man, features Lorrie Morgan, although Dolly does most of the singing so perhaps she wins that battle. Other great songs include If you need me, Wildest dreams and Dreams do come true and Runaway feelings, but may favorite here is the upbeat Country road, a song about the love a country woman has for a man from the city.

This overlooked gem will forever be one of my favorite Dolly albums.


She's an eagle when she flies
It was released after her successful return to country music with 1989's WHITE LIMOZEEN. This is a nice album from Dolly. This album also gave Dolly a few more hits, and the album went platinum. The album opens with the bluegrass tinged "If You Need Me". "Rockin Years", with Ricky Van Shelton, was Parton's last #1 hit on the country charts. "Silver And Gold" reached #15, and the title track #33. The title track is a very positive ballad, and stands as yet another classic Dolly Parton song. There's a fun duet with Lorrie Morgan called "Best Woman Wins". "What A Heartache" is updated from the RHINESTONE days. "Family" is a nice ballad, very true in it's context. The closing "Wildest Dreams" has become a favorite song of mine, a very nice positive ballad. Overall a nice album from Dolly.


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