Trio

3/5. With the two albums I’ve had of hers so far on this generator I’m realizing that I love a ton of Dolly Parton songs, but never really completely click with her full albums. Though Dolly is only 1/3 of the equation on this album which also features Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, both of whom I am admittedly not familiar with. And though as I mentioned I didn’t love the full album there’s still a good amount of highlights like “to know him is to love him” or “rosewood casket.”

Another surprising sorta-country album. The three singers’ voices work together well and most of the songs are pretty solid.

This is lovely and I'm glad to know there's a second one I'll get to check out.

Trio is a pretty solid album but admittedly some very basic country music. I have varying degrees of knowledge involving all three of the singers involved on this record. Dolly Parton i know the most about of these due to not only listening to one of her albums for this project but also listening to the podcast about her, Emmylou Harris i don't know as much about but i have also heard one of her albums and Linda Ronstadt, i don't know much about her and i also never heard much of her work. The album itself really does bring out their great vocals but everything else about this album really isn't that special. Good album but not enough reasons for me to really recommend it.
Best Song: Farther Along
Worst Song: Wildflowers

So putting three of the biggest female vocalists from the 20th century together is seriously magical. With Dolly, Linda, and Emmylou its easy because their styles blend so well, it's a beautiful take on traditional country folk harmonies. Their voices are just perfect, no one's trying to outshine each other, it's all about the music. It's easy to listen to, cozy, and really pleasing, pure, timeless country at its finest.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

What's there to elaborate here? As the title makes clear, this record boasts the talents of three of the most beloved country gals of the 20th century, & it's a quiet, slamming perfection. 'I'm making plans to be lonesome.' Like a soundtrack to a soundtrack, in other words, like music that tells the story of itself, the album flows from track to track, making a world w/o cracks or any wrong note, tho the songs, being true to their country-folk origins, manifest our cracking, troubled humanities. I guess what I love about music like this is its Beckettian sensibility: when you feel you've given up, all you have to do is look around & you see that you haven't. 'I just never belonged, I just longed to be gone / So the garden one day set me free.' Life in a nutshell.

Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff

Perfectly performed old-school Nashville music that is way too predictable and one-tempo to engage with:

Las amo. Sus voces se complementan tan bien.

The harmonies are top notch, but many of the songs are incredibly sappy. Not a huge fan of those songs but the harmonies save this one.

I enjoyed this one more than I expected. All songs are pretty good and the voices are great. I also found some of the lyrics were pretty good. I'm between 3 and 4 but I'm leaning towards 4.

This is a perfectly fine album, but for 1987 it feels years late. Nothing game changing here. Telling Me Lies is amazing vocally. Favorites were Wildflowers and Telling Me Lies.

Hell yeah, it's the ladies.

Good grief, that's a lot of rouge they're wearing.

The music itself isn't bad, but I didn't particularly enjoy it and am perfectly content with hearing it precisely once before I die.

Fine. Nothing extra. Loooow 3

Heard Before?
Yes.

Notes:
- obviously a vocal showcase and the vocals are uniformly stunning, even if they can't really sell the lyrics of "Hobo's Meditation".
- song selection could have been a little more daring, but these safe bets are still great.
- the arrangements strive for variety but end up a little bland and formulaic. never truly awful though, and the performances are note perfect.
- production is clear and lovely, only venturing too far into cheeseball adult contemporary on "Telling Me Lies".
- for a vocal-focused album, they actually give the instrumentals a surprising amount of space to work in.
- I'm always happy to leave rock music behind for any genre where triplet time signatures are normal.

Verdict:
One of the very few supergroup albums in any genre that's worth a serious listen.

Listen Again?
I'm not opposed. It's a highlight in each of their catalogues.

Buff, a ver. Creo que es un ejemplo prefecto de lo que fuera de EE.UU. nos suena a música country. No está mal, pero no me guardo ninguna canción. Sería un 2,5, pero le daremos 3 para no parecer un amargado.

I love the Coen brothers' films, including O' Brother, Where Art Thou? This film featured a few songs that made me rethink my attitude toward country music. The first track on this album was so off-putting that I actually wanted to turn it off right away. Then I listened to a few more tracks and decided to give the album a chance, remembering the film I mentioned. It was so awful that I gave up less than halfway through. I couldn't stand it. I'd rather listen to a scrap press or a circular saw. 1/5

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