Track Listing 1. Hungry Again 2. Salt in My Tears, The 3. Honky Tonk Songs 4. Blue Valley Songbird 5. I Wanna Go Back There 6. When Jesus Comes Calling For Me 7. Time and Tears 8. I'll Never Say Goodbye 9. Camel's Heart, The 10. I Still Lost You 11. Paradise Road 12. Shine On
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Rhonda Vincent | | Producer: | Dolly Parton, Richie Owens | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Dolly Parton (vocals); Richie Owens (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitar, mandolin, dobro, bouzouki, autoharp, harmonica); Gary Davis (acoustic guitar, banjo); Bob Ocker (acoustic & electric guitars); Al Perkins (pedal steel) ; Gary Mackey (mandolin, fiddle); Johnny Laufer (strings, piano, organ); Randy Leago (accordion); Mark Brooks (acoustic & electric basses); Eric Rupert (bass); Bob Grundner (drums, percussion); Rhonda Vincent, Darrin Vincent, Richard Dennison, Jennifor O'Brien, Joy Gardner, Louis Nunley, Brian Waldschlar, Judy Ogle, Teresa Hughes, Ira Parker, Lois Baker, Paul Brewster, Jimmy Bolin & the House of Prayer Congregation (background vocals). All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. Recorded in the basement studio of Richie Owens, Parton's cousin, HUNGRY AGAIN is an intensely personal album that mixes country, bluegrass, folk and gospel while highlighting Dolly's crystalline voice. The stripped-down songs, mostly dealing with longtime love gone awry, seem to spring from Dolly's need to get back to her roots, rather than any desire to scale the country charts. She gets high lonesome on bluegrass-tinged numbers like "Time and Tears" and "I Wanna Go Back There," and goes all-out gospel on the closing track, "Shine On." Two story songs, "Blue Valley Songbird" and "Paradise Road," recall earlier compositions like her classic "Coat of Many Colors." "Honky Tonk Songs" is the only track that's vaguely commercial--it's a rockin' number that asks why all the good cry-in-your-beer tunes have been sung by men, and not women. HUNGRY AGAIN proves that under the wigs and makeup, Dolly Parton is still an amazingly emotional vocalist and writer. Thanks for reminding us.
Editorial Reviews 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...a bunch of thigh-slapping trad country songs, just like she did before Shania Twain arrived on the scene and, in all probability, just like she will after new country has faded. Powered by Duracell, surely. Q (12/01/1999)
...Writing with the sharp-eyed clarity of her early work, she moves through mountain confessionals, honky-tonk heartache, and gospel truths, and turns a midlife crisis into an artistic rebirth. - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (09/11/1998)
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