Wednesday 12/14/22 6pm ET: Dolly Parton – Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection (2022)

Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection is a compilation album by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released by RCA Records and Legacy Recordings on November 18, 2022.

The album includes Parton’s collaborations with Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, and Swedish dance duo Galantis. The album also includes songs featured in Parton’s films, including “9 to 5” from the 1980 movie by the same name, “Tennessee Homesick Blues” from Rhinestone, and “Red Shoes” from Dumplin’.

1. “9 to 5” 2:45
2. “Jolene” 2:40
3. “Here You Come Again” 2:56
4. “Islands in the Stream” (with Kenny Rogers) 4:09
5. “I Will Always Love You” 2:54
6. “Coat of Many Colors” 3:03
7. “My Tennessee Mountain Home” 3:07
8. “The Bargain Store” 2:41
9. “Baby I’m Burnin'” 2:36
10. “Better Get to Livin'” 3:34
11. “Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That” 2:32
12. “Love Is Like a Butterfly” 2:20
13. “Heartbreaker” 3:34
14. “Red Shoes” 2:57
15. “The Seeker” 3:13
16. “Together You and I” 3:56
17. “Two Doors Down” 3:07
18. “When Life Is Good Again” 4:11
19. “Tennessee Homesick Blues” 3:23
20. “It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right” 3:18
21. “Real Love” (with Kenny Rogers) 3:52
22. “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” (with Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn) 2:23
23. “Faith” (with Galantis and Mr. Probz) 3:07

Sunday 3/6/22 3pm ET: Feature LP: Dolly Parton – Run, Rose, Run (2022)

Run, Rose, Run is the forty-eighth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. It was released March 4, 2022, through Parton’s own Butterfly Records. The album was produced by Parton with Richard Dennison and Tom Rutledge. It is a companion album to the novel of the same name, co-written by Parton and James Patterson. The album was preceded by the release of the singles “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans” and “Blue Bonnet Breeze”.

1. “Run” 2:45
2. “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans” 4:07
3. “Demons” (featuring Ben Haggard) 3:24
4. “Driven” 2:40
5. “Snakes in the Grass” 2:41
6. “Blue Bonnet Breeze” 5:19
7. “Woman Up (And Take It Like a Man)” 2:27
8. “Firecracker” 3:13
9. “Secrets” (featuring Joe Nichols) 2:52
10. “Lost and Found” 3:18
11. “Dark Night, Bright Future” 2:37
12. “Love or Lust” (featuring Richard Dennison) 3:20

David Angell – violin (tracks 6, 12)
Monissa Angel – violin (track 6)
Appalachian Road Show – background vocals (track 10)
Barry Abernathy, Jim Van Cleve, Darrel Webb
Pat Bergeson – harmonica (tracks 2, 7)
Becky Isaacs Bowman – background vocals (track 4)
Jamie Daily – background vocals (track 1)
David Davidson – violin (tracks 6, 12)
Richard Dennison – piano (tracks 1, 4, 8, 11, 12), B3 organ (tracks 2, 7), keys (tracks 3, 9), guest artist (track 12), background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10)
Ben Haggard – guest artist (track 3)
Vicki Hampton – background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10)
Steve Hinson – steel guitar (track 10)
Paul Hollowell – B3 organ (track 5)
Sonya Isaacs – background vocals (track 4)
Dirk Johnson – keys (track 10)
Steve Mackey – bass (tracks 1–5, 7, 8–11)
Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle (tracks 1, 8, 11), mandolin (tracks 6, 9, 12)
Charlie McCoy – harmonica (track 3)
Aaron McCune – background vocals (track 1)
Joe Nichols – guest artist (track 10)
Jennifer O’Brien – background vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10)
Richie Owens – Weissenborn resonator guitar (track 5)
Carole Rabinowitz – cello (track 6)
Sarighani Reist – cello (track 12)
Dolly Parton – lead vocals (all tracks), harmony vocals (tracks 3, 6, 8–10)
Tom Rutledge – banjo (tracks 1, 4, 11), acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 5–7, 9, 10)
Val Storey – background vocals (track 8)
Scott Vestal – banjo (track 8)
Darrin Vincent – background vocals (track 1)
Rhonda Vincent – background vocals (track 8)
Kent Wells – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 11), electric guitar (tracks 1–5, 7–11)
Kristin Wilkinson – viola (track 12)
Lonnie Wilson – drums (tracks 1–5, 7–11)

Thursday 1/20/22 1pm ET: Artist Countdown: Dolly Parton Top 30 Hits

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton’s albums in the 1990s did not sell as well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Parton’s music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach no. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered 11 Grammy Awards and 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award; ten Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award; five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including Entertainer of the Year; four People’s Choice Awards; and three American Music Awards.

In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including “I Will Always Love You” (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), “Jolene”, “Coat of Many Colors”, and “9 to 5”. She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, as well as Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).

Monday 7/12/21 12pm ET: Artist Countdown – Linda Ronstadt Top 30 Hits

Linda Ronstadt, an American rock, pop and country artist (who also recorded in other genres, such as light opera and traditional Mexican music), consists of 24 solo studio albums, one live album, numerous compilation albums, and 63 singles. After recording three albums with her folk rock band, The Stone Poneys, Ronstadt debuted on Capitol Records as a solo artist with 1969’s Hand Sown … Home Grown. Her final album was released in 2006. Ronstadt has sold over 30 million records in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

1	Blue Bayou	1977
2	Don’t Know Much (with Aaron Neville)	1989
3	You’re No Good	1975
4	When Will I Be Loved	1975
5	The Tracks of My Tears	1975
6	That’ll Be the Day	1976
7	It’s So Easy	1977
8	Back in the U.S.A.	1978
9	Somewhere Out There (with James Ingram)	1986
10	Poor Poor Pitiful Me	1977
11	All My Life (with Aaron Neville)	1989
12	Tumbling Dice	1978
13	Ooh Baby Baby	1978
14	Hurt So Bad	1980
15	Just One Look	1979
16	I Knew You When	1982
17	Heat Wave	1975
18	How Do I Make You	1980
19	When Something Is Wrong with My Baby (with Aaron Neville)	1990
20	Love Has No Pride	1973
21	Get Closer	1982
22	Telling Me Lies (Emmylou Harris & Dolly Parton)	1987
23	Someone to Lay Down Beside Me	1976
24	Adios	1990
25	Long, Long Time	1970
26	To Know Him Is To Love Him (Emmylou Harris & Dolly Parton)	1987
27	Silver Threads and Golden Needles	1974
28	Easy for You to Say	1983
29	Blue Train	1995
30	Love Is a Rose	1975

Thursday 4/1/21 1am ET: Feature LP: Barry Gibb – Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1

Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 is the third solo album by British-American singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, which was released on January 8, 2021 by Capitol Records in America and EMI Records internationally. The album features re-imaginings of songs written by the Bee Gees with country music singers. The album’s title is taken from a lyric in the song “Butterfly”.

At 74 years, 4 months and 17 days old, Gibb became the oldest artist to peak at number 1 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.

1. “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” Keith Urban 3:15
2. “Words of a Fool” Jason Isbell 3:48
3. “Run to Me” Brandi Carlile 3:22
4. “Too Much Heaven” Alison Krauss 3:40
5. “Lonely Days” Little Big Town 3:44
6. “Words” Dolly Parton 3:12
7. “Jive Talkin'” Miranda Lambert and Jay Buchanan 3:58
8. “How Deep Is Your Love” Little Big Town and Tommy Emmanuel 4:26
9. “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” Sheryl Crow 3:26
10. “To Love Somebody” Jay Buchanan 3:55
11. “Rest Your Love on Me” Olivia Newton-John 4:02
12. “Butterfly” David Rawlings and Gillian Welch 3:43

MaxCountry 70s 7pm ET

This week on MaxCountry 70s:  Music from Olivia Newton-john, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, Eddie Rabbitt, Johnny Paycheck, Dolly Parton, Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, Elvis Presley, TG Sheppard, Mel Tillis and more!

Feature LP: Willie Nelson – To All The Girls 11pm ET

To All the Girls… is an album by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, which was released on October 15, 2013, by Legacy Recordings.

The album consists of a collection of duets featuring Nelson along with prominent country music female singers. The performers featured on the eighteen tracks of the album were Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood, The Secret Sisters, Roseanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd, Alison Krauss, Melonie Cannon, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, Lily Meola, Brandi Carlile, Tina Rose; and his daughter, Paula Nelson. The album was released on October 15, 2013 on Legacy Recordings.

The first single “From Here to the Moon and Back”, a duet with Dolly Parton that she wrote for the 2012 movie Joyful Noise, was released on August 2, 2013. It was followed by the release of the single “Grandma’s Hands“, with Mavis Staples, on August 6. “It Won’t Be Long”, featuring the Secret Sisters was released on September 24; while “Somewhere Between” with Loretta Lynn was released on October 1.

1	From Here to the Moon and Back	Dolly Parton	4:01
2	She Was No Good for Me	Miranda Lambert	3:47
3	It Won’t Be Very Long	The Secret Sisters	2:36
4	Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends	Rosanne Cash	4:18
5	Far Away Places	Sheryl Crow	4:56
6	Bloody Mary Morning	Wynonna Judd	3:05
7	Always on My Mind	Carrie Underwood	3:55
8	Somewhere Between	Loretta Lynn	3:13
9	No Mas Amor	Alison Krauss	4:12
10	Back To Earth	Melonie Cannon	3:30
11	Grandma’s Hands	Mavis Staples	3:10
12	Walkin’	Norah Jones	3:39
13	‘Til The End of the World	Shelby Lynne	2:01
14	Will You Remember Mine	Lily Meola	4:34
15	Dry Lightning	Emmylou Harris	4:21
16	Making Believe	Brandi Carlile	3:16
17	Have You Ever Seen the Rain	Paula Nelson	4:38
18	After the Fire Is Gone	Tina Rose	2:43

Source: Wikipedia

 

Artist Countdown: Kenny Rogers Top 25 Hits 6pm ET @_KennyRogers

Kenneth Donald “Kenny” Rogers (born 21 August 1938) is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Though he has been most successful with country audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.

1	Lucille
2	Coward of the County
3	Islands in the Stream w/ Dolly Parton
4	Lady
5	We’ve Got Tonight w/ Sheena Easton
6	The Gambler
7	She Believes in Me
8	I Don’t Need You
9	Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer w/ Kim Carnes
10	You Decorated My Life
11	Love Will Turn You Around
12	Daytime Friends
13	The Greatest
14	Love or Something Like It
15	Sweet Music Man
16	The Last Ten Years (Superman)
17	I Can’t Unlove You
18	Through the Years
19	Twenty Years Ago
20	Morning Desire
21	Crazy
22	All My Life
23	Real Love w/ Dolly Parton
24	Scarlet Fever
25	Buried Treasure

 

Artist Countdown: Pam Tillis Top 35 Hits 6pm ET @PamTillis

Pamela Yvonne “Pam” Tillis (born July 24, 1957 in Plant City, Florida) is an America country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis and one of five children.

Originally a demo singer in Nashville, Tennessee, Tillis was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1981, for which she released nine singles and one album, Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey. By 1991, she had signed to Arista Nashville, entering Top 40 on Hot Country Songs for the first time with “Don’t Tell Me What to Do”, the first of five singles from her album Put Yourself in My Place. Tillis recorded five more albums for Arista Nashville between then and 2001, plus a greatest hits album and 22 more singles. Her only number 1 hit on the country charts was 1995’s “Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)“, although 12 other singles made Top 10 on that chart. After exiting Arista, Tillis released It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis for Lucky Dog Records in 2002, plus RhineStoned and the Christmas album Just in Time for Christmas on her own Stellar Cat label in 2007. Her albums Homeward Looking Angel (1992), Sweetheart’s Dance (1994) and Greatest Hits (1997) are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while Put Yourself in My Place and 1995’s All of This Love are certified gold.

Besides her own work, Tillis co-wrote and sang on the 1990 Warner Bros. single “Tomorrow’s World”, written in honor of Earth Day, and Dolly Parton’s 1992 single “Romeo”. She has won two major awards: a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1999 for the multi-artist collaboration “Same Old Train”, and the 1994 Country Music Association award for Best Female Vocalist. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
2	Shake the Sugar Tree
3	Maybe It Was Memphis
4	Deep Down
5	All the Good Ones Are Gone
6	In Between Dances
7	One of Those Things
8	Let That Pony Run
9	Spilled Perfume
10	When You Walk in the Room
11	Put Yourself in My Place
12	I Said a Prayer
13	Land of the Living
14	The River and the Highway
15	Don’t Tell Me What to Do
16	Cleopatra, Queen of Denial
17	Do You Know Where Your Man Is
18	It’s Lonely Out There
19	I Was Blown Away
20	Please
21	Blue Rose Is
22	Romeo (with Parton, Cyrus, Mattea, Carpenter, Tucker)
23	Every Time
24	After a Kiss
25	Betty’s Got a Bass Boat
26	Those Memories of You
27	I Wish She Wouldn’t Treat You That Way
28	Goodbye Highway
29	There Goes My Love
30	Killer Comfort
31	Love Sneakin’ Up on You
32	Thunder & Roses
33	Unmitigated Gall
34	So Wrong
35	Band in the Window

Artist Countdown: Sheena Easton Top 30 Hits 12pm ET

Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr; 27 April 1959) is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. In the US Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner and achieved 6 Gold albums and 1 Platinum and has sold over 4 million albums in the US alone, and over 20 million records worldwide. She has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles, and has 15 Top 40 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100. Sheena Easton is the only artist in the history of the US Billboard charts to have a top 3 hit on each of the Billboards key charts: Adult Contemporary, Dance, Pop, Country, and R&B. In the UK, Sheena has 3 top 40 albums and 8 top 40 singles to date.

Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop hits “9 to 5” (known as “Morning Train” in the United States), “For Your Eyes Only”, “Strut”, “Sugar Walls”, “U Got the Look” with Prince, and “The Lover in Me”. She went on to become successful in the United States and Japan, working with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid and Babyface, Patrice Rushen, and Nile Rodgers.

“9 to 5” was Easton’s first single release in the United States, although it was renamed “Morning Train (Nine To Five)” for its release in the US and Canada to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton’s hit movie title song “9 to 5”. “Morning Train” became Easton’s first and only #1 hit in the US and topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in Billboard magazine. “Modern Girl” was released as the follow-up and peaked at #18, and before 1981 was over Sheena had a Top 10 hit in both the US and UK with the Academy Award-nominated James Bond movie theme ”For Your Eyes Only”. The song was nominated for an Academy Award in 1981 in the category “Best Music (Original Song)”. Easton’s US success culminated in her winning the Grammy Award for “Best New Artist” of 1981. –

Source: Wikipedia

1	For Your Eyes Only
2	9 to 5 (Morning Train)
3	We’ve Got Tonight (with Kenny Rogers)
4	The Lover in Me
5	U Got the Look (with Prince)
6	Machinery
7	The Arms of Orion (with Prince)
8	Modern Girl
9	Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
10	Strut
11	You Could Have Been with Me
12	What Comes Naturally
13	Sugar Walls
14	When He Shines
15	Almost Over You
16	Do It for Love
17	Just Another Broken Heart
18	So Far So Good
19	One Man Woman
20	Follow My Rainbow
21	A Little Tenderness
22	Take My Time
23	101
24	I Wouldn’t Beg for Water
25	Jimmy Mack
26	Days Like This
27	Swear
28	Hungry Eyes
29	Are You Man Enough
30	Ice Out in the Rain

Artist Countdown: Emmylou Harris Top 30 Hits 7:30pm ET

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released many chart-topping albums and singles over the course of her career, and has won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards.

Harris is from a career military family. Her father, Walter Harris, was a military officer and her mother Eugenia was a wartime military wife. Her father, a member of the Marine Corps, was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. She won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. Leaving college to pursue her musical aspirations, she moved to New York, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in the Maryland suburbs on the edge of Washington, D.C.

In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers’ works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Gram Parsons, John Denver, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, The Band, Mark Knopfler, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, Little Feat, and Neil Young. -Wikipedia

1	Mister Sandman
2	That Lovin’ You Feeling Again (with Roy Orbison)
3	Wild Montana Skies (with John Denver)
4	(You Never Can Tell) C’est La Vie
5	Together Again
6	Here, There and Everywhere
7	Telling Me Lies (with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt)
8	If I Could Only Win Your Love
9	To Know Him Is to Love Him (with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt)
10	Making Believe
11	To Daddy
12	Sweet Dreams
13	Two More Bottles of Wine
14	Beneath Still Waters
15	If I Needed You (with Don Williams)
16	(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date
17	One of These Days
18	I’m Movin’ On
19	Wayfaring Stranger
20	Blue Kentucky Girl
21	Born to Run
22	Tennessee Rose
23	Wildflowers (with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt)
24	In My Dreams
25	Easy from Now On
26	Pledging My Love
27	White Line
28	The Boxer
29	Save the Last Dance for Me
30	Thing About You (with Southern Pacific)