Author: Parton, Dolly

Format: Import

Release Date: 25-08-1998

Details: Review ...The title of this album implies that she is attempting to recapture the verve, innocence and healthy ambition of the years before ... and it succeeds, with an energetic mix that evokes the memory of Parton's best tunes.… -- People [Dolly Parton writes] with the sharp-eyed clarity of her early work.... -- Entertainment Weekly Amazon.ca In 1997, middle-aged, no longer viable at radio, and as she later said, "not knowing exactly what I should be doing in my musical career," Parton returned to the Tennessee mountain cabin of her youth to "write like I was hungry again." The result is an album that revives her reputation as a country singer/songwriter and allows her to sing, to testify even, with the kind of authentic, fiery passion absent from her recordings for nearly three decades. Backed by the hang-loose, alt-country band Shinola, Parton performs a stirring and, at times, deeply moving set of autobiographical songs with two interlaced themes: the pain of romantic rejection ("I Still Lost You"), and a homecoming to reflect on a life at the crossroads ("I Wanna Go Back There"). Nearly all of it--the retro-trad of "Honky Tonk Songs," the incest ballad "Blue Valley Songbird," the searching gospel of "Shine On"--seems born of hard-won experience. Hungry Again isn't just Dolly's return to her rural roots. It's the sound of an artist who's found herself again. --Alanna Nash

UPC: 008817004129

EAN: 0008817004129

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood