![]() "All the songs are personal and wonderful and familiar for me," says Parton, who needed less than a week to complete the sessions. ![]() The a cappella gospel "I Am Ready" was written by her sister Rachel. The late Johnny Bond (also a new Hall of Fame inductee) wrote The Grass Is Blue's "I Wonder Where You Are Tonight." Parton herself wrote four songs, including the title track "Endless Stream Of Tears," which just missed the cut on Hungry Again "Will He Be Waiting For Me," which she first recorded early in her career and "Steady As The Rain," which she wrote for her sister Stella. I always loved Billy Joel's `Travelin' Prayer,' which I thought lent itself to pure bluegrass, and `Train, Train,' which I found off an old Blackfoot album and will sing on the CMA "So I chose some songs I've been singing all my life, like the Louvin Brothers' `Cash On The Barrelhead,' and songs I love, like Johnny Cash's `I Still Miss Someone,' Flatt & Scruggs' `I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open,' and `Silver Dagger,' a public-domain song I learned from my mother. "I've always loved bluegrass, having grown up in and around mountain music and bluegrass," says Parton. It also follows Hungry Again, Parton's return to her country roots, which came out last year on Decca. ![]() The Grass Is Blue is Parton's first bluegrass album and joins similarly high-profile bluegrass releases this year from Steve Earle, the Del McCoury Band, and Ricky Skaggs. 26 by Sugar Hill/Blue Eye Records, a joint imprint of Parton's Blue Eye and the bluegrass label Sugar Hill, which was recently acquired by Welk Music Group, where Buckingham is now senior vice president. In extremely short order, Parton recorded The Grass Is Blue in Nashville with Buckingham producing and with such luminaries as Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Alison Krauss, and Rhonda Vincent accompanying, along with country songstress Patty Loveless. ![]() "But then I thought, since I manage myself now and have my own label and can do what I want, why not do it?" "We were both shocked," says Parton, who will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame Sept. NEW YORK (BPI) - When Dolly Parton and her longtime associate Steve Buckingham had dinner in July in Los Angeles, he said bluegrass fans, when asked which artist they would most like to make a bluegrass album, overwhelmingly cited her. Your premier resource for Dolly Parton news and information Dollymania: The Online Dolly Parton Newsmagazine. ![]()
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