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Dolly Parton\u2019s greatest albums ranked!\u00a0<\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”intro-text” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

To celebrate Dolly Parton\u2019s 80th birthday, MOJO doffs a Stetson to The Queen Mother of Country with a rundown of her best-ever albums.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Dolly-Parton-Hero.jpg” title_text=”Dolly Parton, early 1970s” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

One of Dolly Parton\u2019s first country hits was 1967\u2019s Dumb Blonde. It was hardly apt. Few performers have been so endowed with smarts than the former resident of Locust Ridge in Tennessee\u2019s Sevier County. One of a dozen children raised by poor farmers Lee and Avie Parton, she headed for Nashville in 1964, her big break occurring three years later when she linked with country star Porter Wagoner, eventually becoming the focus of the act. When Dolly headed solo it came as no surprise. She was always a star, one not to be inhibited by accepted country music boundaries. \u201cI don\u2019t want to leave the country, \u201c she announced, \u201cI want to take the country with me wherever I go.\u201d\u00a0 She took it, shook it and then paraded it in front of an audience that continued to grow from that moment on.<\/p>\n

Never was this writer more aware of Dolly\u2019s total engagement with an audience than when I saw her onstage at Nashville\u2019s Country Music Awards ceremony at the Opry in 1983. Most of Music City\u2019s leading performers were onstage that evening, but it was Dolly\u2019s duet with Kenny Rogers that filled the hall with something incandescent, the audience immediately rising to its feet in appreciation. Little wonder then that she\u2019s arguably become the most successful artist to ever emerge from the country music scene. Her song output runs to over three thousand compositions, many of her creations providing glimpses of southern rural life or rooting for causes and beliefs once frowned upon in Country circles. An accomplished instrumentalist, a film actress with a penchant for scene stealing and a businesswoman who has moulded her Dollywood theme Park into the biggest ticketed tourist attraction in Tennessee, Dolly Parton has everything. Something confirmed in 2014 at Glastonbury when 200,000 attendees flocked to see her now iconic Sunday afternoon performance at the Pyramid Stage\/ To mark Parton\u2019s 80th birthday, MOJO has a assembled a list of what we feel are her essential records\u2026<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/The-Essential.jpg” title_text=”The Essential” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

10.<\/b> The Essential Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton\u00a0<\/strong>(RCA\/BMG, 1999)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Maybe this doesn\u2019t contain all the essential Porter and Dolly offerings – fans will be quick to point out the omission of the much-requested Jeannie\u2019s Afraid Of The Dark – but it remains the most rewarding compilation of Parton\u2019s era with Porter\u2019s TV and Road Show. Arguably the premier duo in an era strewn with potent rivals \u2013 think George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, etc. \u2013 Porter and Dolly hit the Top 10 country chart with Last Thing On My Mind in 1967 and then just kept on going, notching 16 major successes, all of which are included here.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Jolene.jpg” title_text=”Jolene” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

9. Jolene <\/b>(RCA, 1974)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Dolly was trying to get her solo career off the ground in the wake of seven-year stint with Porter Wagoner\u2019s show and this album, recorded in mid-1973, delivered in every detail. The title song, oddly inspired by a meeting with a red-headed 10 year-old fan, alone remains a standard, covered by The White Stripes, 10,000 Maniacs and a queue a mile long. But also aboard was I Will Always Love You, penned as an appreciation of Wagoner\u2019s influence and aid in forwarding her career. Dolly\u2019s original version stepped up for revaluation after Whitney Houston blasted it into space and a 14 week stay at No.1 in the US charts in 1992.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Blue-Smoke.jpg” title_text=”Blue Smoke” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

8.<\/b> Blue Smoke<\/strong> (Sony, 2014)
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For her 42nd studio album, Dolly served a mix guaranteed to appeal to the widest audience. Wise, considering she was to embark on a World Tour and face contrasting audiences (the European leg including a headline spot at Glastonbury). So there\u2019s something for everyone – duets with Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, covers of material by Dylan and Bon Jovi, the traditional Down By The Ohio, along with a array of originals offering solid proof that, at the age of 68, her talent shows no sign of diminishing. First released in Australia as a single album, Blue Smoke\u2019s arrival in the UK found it packaged with a Greatest Hits compilation.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Just-Because-Im-a-Woman.jpg” title_text=”Just Because I’m a Woman” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

7. Just Because I\u2019m A Woman <\/b>(RCA, 1968)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

This was Dolly\u2019s first solo album for RCA – she\u2019d recorded an earlier offering for Monument – and it was the release that confirmed that the singer really was a performer ready to make meaningful statements. Of the twelve songs present, Dolly wrote seven, including the title track, in which she protested that a woman with a past should not be adjudged worse than a man with a similar sexual history. It also featured The Bridge, which dealt with the abandonment of a pregnant woman and her apparent suicide, and the comic marrying-for-money I\u2019ll Oilwells Love You, a parody of I Will Always Love You six years early.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/New-Harvest.jpg” title_text=”New Harvest” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

6. New Harvest\u2026 First Gathering <\/b>(RCA, 1977)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

The record on which Dolly really took charge, her first in the capacity of producer. She also provided the arrangements and wrote all but two of the songs. The two \u2018borrowed\u2019 items proved to be a version of Smokey\u2019s My Girl and a workout on the Jackie Wilson hit Higher And Higher. And the ploy works because Dolly oozes rootsy, heartfelt, come-on-and-get-that church soul aplenty. Oddly though, the poster track for the album is Applejack, a Barn Party get-together that, with the presence of Kitty Wells, Chet Atkins, Roy Acuff and many others, features one of the most spectacular country legend line-ups ever assembled on record.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/My-Tennessee-Mountain-Home.jpg” title_text=”My Tennessee Mountain Home” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

5. My Tennessee Mountain Home <\/b>(RCA, 1973)
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In early 1973, Parton opted to provide this rootsy musical autobiography, a glance back at her childhood and the poverty in which she was raised. The album begins with a reading of the first letter that the singer wrote to her parents after leaving her Sevierville, Tennessee, hometown and heading for Nashville. An 11-track affair, completely self-penned, it includes concludes with Down On Music Row, a rundown on how she finally made the grade in Nashville namechecking Chet Atkins and producer Bob Ferguson, noting, \u201cthey both told me I was on my way.\u201d There\u2019s fond memories, but In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) injects harsh reality.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/The-Grass-Is-Blue.jpg” title_text=”The Grass Is Blue” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

4. The Grass Is Blue <\/b>(Sugar Hill, 1999)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

This time around, it was just pure bluegrass, all the way, with Dolly being vocally assisted by Claire Lynch, Alison Krause and Rhoda Vincent, while such bluegrass stalwarts as Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas ensured the instrumental licks had immaculate pedigree. If a cover of Billy Joel\u2019s Travelin\u2019 Prayer reworked as a bluegrass ramble raised a smidgen of doubt over genre purity, then Parton\u2019s fragile, slow-waltz title song and versions of the Louvin Brothers\u2019 Cash On The Barrelhead and the closing, gospel-inclined acapella I Am Ready stood testament to the fact that Dolly had made it back to the porch. \u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Coat-Of-Many-Colors.jpg” title_text=”Coat Of Many Colors” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

3.<\/b> Coat of Many Colors<\/strong> (RCA, 1971)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Parton ranks the title song to this album is her favourite all-time composition. Totally moving and deeply personal, it details how her mother, Avie, struggling with raising twelve children in abject conditions, did actually make Dolly a patchwork coat from a box of rags (\u201cOne is only poor only if you choose to be,\u201d she concludes). Such was the strength of songwriting on the album that Dolly would return to re-evaluate its wares time and time again, recording My Blue Tears twice more. Reissued in various guises, Coat of Many Colors appeared in Time Magazine\u2019s 100 Greatest Albums of All Time listing during 2006.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Little-Sparrow.jpg” title_text=”Little Sparrow” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

2.<\/b> Little Sparrow <\/strong>(Sugar Hill, 2001)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

The second of Dolly\u2019s three essential bluegrass\u2019n\u2019folk albums for Sugar Hill, and also the best. Old Parton classics like Down From Dover and My Blue Tears are reshuffled expertly, and if not quite matched by her new stash of originals, slot in easily alongside a banjo-driven charge through Steve Young\u2019s Seven Bridges Road, a mildly screwball version of Cole Porter\u2019s I Get A Kick Out Of You and an interpretation of Collective Soul\u2019s Shine that saw Parton collecting a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Parton never sounded so confident, aware she was creating something to see off all usurpers to her crown.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/9-to-5.jpg” title_text=”9 to 5″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

1.<\/b> 9 To 5 and Odd Jobs<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>(RCA, 1980)<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

During the late \u201870s Parton increasingly veered away from her roots in an attempt to establish herself as a crossover artist. This album, though, it owes its birth to Dolly\u2019s catchy theme to the film 9 To 5, and sees her once more glancing back and creating what is, vaguely, a concept affair, concerned with working-class lives. The traditional House Of The Rising Sun, decked out in an arrangement by Parton and produced Mike Post, rubs shoulders with Merle Travis\u2019 mining song, Dark As A Dungeon, Woody Guthrie\u2019s Deportee and Dolly\u2019s own, name-check-filled Working Girl providing an album that topped the US pop charts for 10 straight weeks.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/My-Life.jpg” title_text=”My Life” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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The most rewarding book on Dolly Parton remains her autobiography My Life And Other Unfinished Business, published by Harper-Collins in 1994. You can hear Dolly\u2019s Tennessee twang in every line as she details her early life and rise to fame in this from-the-heart account that appears to be transcribed directly from tape. Wanna hear how it would sound if Dolly sat herself down and actually read it to you? Well, if you\u2019ve got just under five hours to spend, then she does that very thing on YouTube at tinyurl.com\/pp4e4ke. \u00a0The accompanying illustration, depicting an ultra-chic Parton in a shack decorated with newspaper-decorated walls, is also worth a peek.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate Dolly Parton\u2019s 80th birthday, MOJO doffs a Stetson to The Queen Mother of Country with a rundown of her best-ever albums.
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