Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton

When Parton made this album she was not the megastar we came to know — she was still seen as Porter Wagoner's blonde sidekick. But Coat of Many Colors sits right at the point where Dolly Parton is becoming Dolly Parton.

You can hear the Appalachian roots. You can hear traditional country. You can hear folk and pop creeping in around the edges. You can hear the extraordinary emotional directness that would eventually make her one of the great country songwriters of her generation.

But you can also hear somebody still figuring it out.

Featured songs:

Coat Of Many Colors
Traveling Man
She Never Met A Man [She Didn't Like]
Early Morning Breeze
The Way I See You
Here I Am

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