Retro Single Review: Dolly Parton, “My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy”
1969 | Peak: #45
This one’s a masterpiece. Among Dolly’s southern gothic classics from the early days, it’s rivaled only by “Down From Dover.”
Month: August 2011
Retro Single Review: Dolly Parton, “In the Ghetto”
1969 | Peak: #50
As with her take on “Imagine” decades later, Parton’s cover of the now-classic Elvis Presley single “In the Ghetto” is fatally flawed.
CU Roundtable Review: Martina McBride, “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”
Written by Ben Hayslip, Sonya Isaacs, and Jimmy Yeary
Leeann Ward:
After changing record labels and subsequently releasing the refreshingly sassy “Teenage Daughters”, not to mention interviews that hinted that she hadn’t been completely happy with the direction that her music had taken in recent years, it seemed that blessedly gone might be the days of overwrought, cloying power ballads with generic productions for Martina McBride. The release of “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”, however, laid that hope to rest for those of us who had tired of such songs a zillion Martina songs ago