Nov. 17th, Dolly Parton Rockstar
Full disclosure, I didn’t listen to every second of this album. This is the first time since I’ve been doing this weekly review thing that I actually didn’t listen to the album, front-to-back. I couldn’t. And if you did, brother, why did you waste your time?
This album is nothing but a novelty album, which is fine. I gave the T-Pain cover album a glowing review earlier this year. But the problem with this album is that it’s long. Like, ridiculously long. 2 hours and 22 minutes to be exact. And once the novelty of “Wow, Dolly Parton is singing this famous rock song” wears off, it’s nothing but an empty husk. The nine songs she wrote for the album are actually charming, albeit cheesy, I think those should have been the album. But instead they are buried under 21 boring karaoke style covers. Yes, TWENTY ONE covers.
P.S. I was gonna review the new Bob Dylan release, The Complete Budokan 1978, but since it’s technically a box set and expanded reissue of a preexisting album, I decided not to. But now I wish I had. Learn from my mistake. Go and listen to that instead.
Favorite song: “I Want You Back (feat. Steven Tyler)”
