Heartsongs: Live from Home
Heartsongs: Live from Home is a live album by Dolly Parton, released on September 27, 1994. Recorded at a concert at Parton's theme park Dollywood, the album featured a mix of Parton originals and traditional folk songs. "To Daddy" was one of Parton's compositions that she had never previously released; Emmylou Harris, who recorded the song in 1978, took her recording of the song to the U.S. country singles top three). The campy "PMS Blues" went on to become a concert favorite, and received a fair amount of airplay as an album track. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh sang Irish vocals on "Barbara Allen".
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| Released | September 27, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | April 23–24, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Country, gospel | |||
| Length | 75:17 | |||
| Language | English Irish | |||
| Label | Columbia Nashville/Blue Eye Records | |||
| Producer | Steve Buckingham | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
“Heartsongs: Live From Home” spoke of Dolly’s desire to share her roots with her fans and celebrates the rich musical heritage of the Smoky Mountains. In an interview right before she recorded the album Dolly said,
“It’s about my life and my roots and my growing up days… It’s about the connection between the Scottish music, the Irish music, the English music, and the Welsh music that has been brought over to the Smoky Mountains that I grew up singing.”
The original song “To Daddy” was a first-time recording for Dolly but had been released in an earlier version by Emmylou Harris. [2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Heartsong" | Dolly Parton | 5:25 |
| 2. | "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" | A.P. Carter | 2:52 |
| 3. | "Mary of the Wild Moor" | Joseph W. Turner | 4:06 |
| 4. | "In the Pines" | Traditional | 2.42 |
| 5. | "My Blue Tears" | Dolly Parton | 2:47 |
| 6. | "Applejack" | Dolly Parton | 3:35 |
| 7. | "Coat of Many Colors" | Dolly Parton | 4:21 |
| 8. | "Smoky Mountain Memories" | Dolly Parton | 4:11 |
| 9. | "Night Train to Memphis" | Owen Bradley, Marvin Huges, Beasley Smith | 2:42 |
| 10. | "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" | Charles Converse, Joseph Scriven | 2:47 |
| 11. | "Hold Fast to the Right" | James D. Vaughan | 2:32 |
| 12. | "Walter Henry Hagan" | Dolly Parton | 3:40 |
| 13. | "Barbara Allen" | Traditional (English), Irish lyrics by Proinsias Ó Maonaigh (performed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh) | 5:24 |
| 14. | "Brave Little Soldier" | Dolly Parton | 3:54 |
| 15. | "To Daddy" | Dolly Parton | 2:55 |
| 16. | "True Blue" | Dolly Parton, James Newton Howard | 3:06 |
| 17. | "Longer Than Always" | Dolly Parton | 2:59 |
| 18. | "Wayfaring Stranger" | Traditional | 3:09 |
| 19. | "My Tennessee Mountain Home" | Dolly Parton | 3:22 |
| 20. | "Heartsong (Reprise)" | Dolly Parton | 2:20 |
| 21. | "Cas Walker Theme" | 0:58 | |
| 22. | "Black Draught Theme" | 1:24 | |
| 23. | "PMS Blues" | Dolly Parton | 5:36 |
Personnel
- Altan - vocals
- Mairead Nimahonaigh - vocals, fiddle
- Frankie Kennedy - flute
- Ciaran Curran - bouzouki
- Daithi Gproule - guitar
- Ciaran Tourish - fiddle
- Dermot Bryne - accordion
- Jerry O'Sullivan - uilleann pipes
- Timothy White - photography
- Alison Krauss - harmony vocals, fiddle
- Suzanne Cox - harmony vocals
- Rhonda Vincent - harmony vocals
- Darrin Vincent - harmony vocals
- Carl Jackson - harmony vocals, guitar
- Randy Scruggs - guitar
- Harry Stinson - drums
- Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
- Jimmy Matthingly - fiddle
- David Lindley - Bronson acoustic steel, Hawaiian acoustic steel, dulcimer, autoharp, claw hammer banjo
- Adam Steffey - mandolin
- Ron Block - banjo
- Ronnie McCoury - mandolin
- Robbie Mercury - banjo
- Pig Robbing - piano
- Jerry Douglas - dobro
- Bruce Watkins - guitar
- Steve Buckingham - guitar
- Viktor Krauss - upright bass
- Richard Dennison - background vocals
- Jennifer O'Brien-Enoch - background vocals
- Lisa Silver - background vocals
- Louis Nunley - background vocals
Chart performance
| Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 87 |
| Australia (ARIA Charts)[3] | 175 |
| Canadian RPM Country Albums | 7 |
References
- Weber, Barry. Heartsongs: Live from Home at AllMusic
- Harris, Emmylou. "'Heartsongs: Live From Home'". Dollyparton.com. Dollyparton.com. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- "Dolly Parton ARIA chart history, received April 29, 2019". ARIA. Retrieved April 1, 2020 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
External links
- Heartsongs: Live from Home at dollyon-line.com
