Coat of Many Colors

Я поважаю Доллі Партон, але такий кантрі-сторітелінг веселий мені не те щоб прям не подобається, але й якось прям кайфанути від такого не можу.

Maybe the greatest living American. Miss Dolly is a great storyteller and the instrumentals behind her are really great too. Traveling Man is a really funny song. This is short and sweet and probably everything I want in a country album.

Schön anzuhören, gerne wieder

Even though she’s a pop culture icon who I’ve always known about I never actually listened to Dolly’s music until now. It’s really good!

Better than Coldplay.

This is a quaint little album, really feels like looking into another lifetime. But I know Dolly is one of my mom's favorite people so I suspect that it can't be too far removed from present day. I think the messages are pretty timeless, even if the specifics are a little dated.

Sometimes I think we're all so busy adoring Dolly Parton for being a human ray of sunshine, we underrate her as a singer-songwriter. This album is a testament to her ability to tell a great story in a song as well as in an interview.

'So I tell my mama that I reckon I oughta / Go to the spring and fetch us some water.' The god talk doesn't do it for me, but Parton is undoubtedly a superb, powerful vocalist, and knows quite well how to compose soulful, compelling pop-country songs. Emphasizing the metaphor of 'many colors,' be it of a coat or a butterfly, Parton ensures, at the very least, that some of what she sings about will hit home: if not this color than the other will be a relatable patch of stumbled-upon truths. She's not Patsy Cline, but then again, who is? She sings w/ an impressive amount of vigor and clarity, she's never dull or wanting of life, and her songs are polished in their curtness but raw in their simplicity.

I have been adamantly anti-country for most of my life because I'd only really been exposed to modern country, but over the past few years I've started exploring more traditional country and alt-country acts. This is my first time listening to a Dolly album and it's wonderful!

Favourite track(s): Coat of Many Colours, Travelling Man, Early Morning Breeze, Here I Am.

Realest, classic country... just lovely and charming

Dolly is a treasure!

The Good: A colorful album!
The Bad: Wait, it is only the coat that is colorful!
The Ugly: Wait again, it seems that the colors on the coat are nothing to be happy about…

Wow… Don’t know what to say, except, I repeat; Wow.
And that is not meant in the WOW, that was great… more like, wow, I always knew that CaW is all about misery, yet the “lord” will come and set you free.

Not my cup of tea. Not what I needed today.
Musicianship on the album is tight, songwriting is tight, vibrato in the voice is a little too much to bare after a while, and one can’t but wish that we’d be sitting on a porch somewhere, chewing tobacco, while sipping some moonshine out of a clay jug and watch cousin Jethro do a jig…

I think that I should give the album a second spin, but maybe not on a dreary day, when the sun isn’t coming out, and sharp objects are too close to my exposed wrists.

Though gut tells me I should give this 2*, I will grant it 3* due to Dolly being Dolly!

Lovely album as expected from Dolly. Personal favourites were Here I Am and She Never Met a Man (She Didn't Like). I liked how short and sweet it was.

Pleasant enough country album. Couldn't fully pay attention but I liked what I listened to. I'm a sucker for this era of country anyways. While this doesn't really sound innovative, it focuses on good storytelling and there's a good variation of songs on there.

I remember this album from Dolly Parton and its title track which I learned about from an American music course in college. It's a sweet song about accepting the best that one can accomplish with what they have, as Dolly wore that coat of rags her mother made for her. It's a nice sentimental song with a story to it, which is pretty much how the rest of the album is.

Coat of Many Colors is a decent slice of country music where the warm textures provided by Dolly's voice and the session musicians are paired with lyrics of whimsy coming from an earnest place. She sang from the heart about relationships lived in such as in "If I Lose My Mind" and "She Never Met a Man (She Didn't Like)", and with wide eyes about the larger world in front of her such as in "The Mystery of the Mystery" and "Early Morning Breeze". There's nothing too exciting or profound to be had here, and sometimes that's just enough for an album to satisfy.

I didn't expect to give such high praise to an album so simple on the surface, but Coat of Many Colors shines in that exception.

I had known the name Dolly Parton for a long time. I had probably forgotten that she is a country icon. After the last country albums as part of this project, which I found surprisingly not so bad for myself, I was looking forward to this album. Well, after listening to 4 tracks, I knew again what bothers me about the genre. I don't need this southern whining. 2/5

Solid old school country (which is far better than the new stuff) 2.5/5

She is precious, I'll give her that. This is as about as good as country gets for me.

I don't think there's ever been a more delightful song writer than Dolly. Such joy and wonder shine forth in every song. This is not just good country, this is great music.

It’s fine