Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow (2001)

Artist...............: Dolly Parton
Album................: Little Sparrow
Genre................: Country
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 2001
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Flac
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 318 Mb


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Though Dolly Parton had been exploring her musical roots to various degrees throughout the last half of the

'90s, her true return to form didn't occur until the release of the Grammy-winning The Grass Is Blue, and

its 2001 follow-up, Little Sparrow. Critics and fans alike agreed that the latter record was easily among

the best Parton had ever recorded, and that was certainly saying something. One of the leading tracks on

Little Sparrow was its love-wary title track, which kicked off an album that was filled with enough

heartache-related songs to cover three separate country records. Parton's lyrics use the familiar folk

metaphor of symbolizing a bird as freedom and rebirth, and she looks to it wishing to escape a world that

has crumbled due to a insincere lover. She grippingly moans, "Little sparrow, flies so high, feels no

pain," while fantasizing, "If I were a little sparrow, oe'r these mountains I would fly/I would find him, I

would find him/look into his lying eye." Besides simple escape, Parton also wants justification for her

sorrow, singing "I would flutter all around him...I would ask him/why he let me love him then." By the end

of the song, however, she realizes she is merely a victim of an "evil cunning scheme," leaving no other

lesson to pass on to her "maidens fair and tender" other than "never trust the hearts of men, for they will

crush you like a sparrow." By this time, Parton has realized that even the sparrow is a victim of man's

evil, and it is only free until it meets up with a man, who will casually destroy it. It's an ingenious

metaphor that, along with a slow, aching melody, and a flawless production and performance, helps round out

what is truly one of the best songs Dolly Parton has written in years.



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Tracklist
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01. Little Sparrow
02. Shine
03. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
04. My Blue Tears
05. Seven Bridges Road
06. Bluer Pastures
07. A Tender Lie
08. I Get A Kick Out Of You
09. Mountain Angel
10. Marry Me
11. Down From Dover
12. The Beautiful Lie
13. In The Sweet By And By
14. Little Sparrow Reprise