Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner - Just Between You And Me - Complete Recordings 1967-76 (6-CD Deluxe Box Set)

6-CD box-set (LP-size) with 80-page hardcover book, 160 tracks. Total playing time approx. 408 mns.

• The greatest male-female duet in country music!
• "They made all other duet teams sound like footnotes" (critic John Morthland).
• Includes 21 timeless hits: Holding On To Nothin', Just Someone I Used To Know, Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man, and Making Plans, as well as the #1 smash Please Don't Stop Loving Me!
• Also includes many rarities including their 1973 release of Here Comes The Freedom Train and live recordings.
• In all, 160 recordings!
• Features an in-depth biography by noted journalist and Dolly Parton biographer, Alanna Nash.

“…I was truly humbled by the high art and soul of duet singing and its power to tell the story of the human heart, broken and otherwise, but Porter and Dolly became the gold standard for me and remain so to this day. At a time when the airwaves and ipods spew out bloodless and over-calculated offerings of a once venerable genre, this is the real deal, my friends – country music the way God intended. And if there is a radio station in heaven, Porter and Dolly will always be in heavy rotation.” Emmylou Harris, Nashville, January 2014

Porter and Dolly had even more than the playfulness and sexual chemistry of Conway Twitty-Loretta Lynn and the high psychodrama of Tammy Wynette-George Jones. Because they were both great songwriters, they wrote songs that mirrored their lives and brought an uncommon variety to their music. Both of them dressed in high hillbilly glamor - like no one else before or since. Neither of them was afraid to make a splash.

When Porter and Dolly began recording in 1967, Porter was the bigger star and Dolly watched his TV show every week as a fan. By the time of their last duets in 1976, Dolly was one of the biggest stars that country music had ever seen, and Porter's biggest hits were his duets with Dolly. Their work was sometimes playful, sometimes romantic, sometimes tortured, and sometimes unbearably sad, much like their personal and professional relationship. For the first time, it's all in one place!

Nashville, Tenn. (December 6, 2013) – Iconic singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist Dolly Parton will kick-off her 'Blue Smoke World Tour' starting in January 2014, making a few concert appearances in the United States before heading down under for shows in New Zealand and Australia, then onto the UK and mainland Europe.

"It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' USA. We're kicking off our Blue Smoke World Tour right here at home. I love traveling all over the world; but it's true, there's nothing like home," says Dolly Parton.

After a widely successful tour of Australia in 2012, Parton will head down under for her first visit to New Zealand in over three decades as well as a return visit to Australia. "Australia, here I come again. We have a lot of new and exciting things for the show and can't wait to share it with you. I love my fans in that part of the world. You've been so very good to me for so many years, I'm really, really excited to be coming back to New Zealand again after 30 years or so. And I know that we're gonna have a wonderful time. It's a long way from home in your part of the world, but I always feel like I'm right at home. So Australia, New Zealand, I'm coming home. Wait up!"

After returning home from Australia and New Zealand, there is no slowing down for Dolly.
In May, Dolly will, once again, hit a few more markets in America before heading across the pond for June concerts in Europe as well as a return to the O2 Arena in London, the venue where Dolly recorded and filmed 'An Evening With…Dolly' (Dolly Records), her widely praised DVD/CD set that was certified Gold by the RIAA.

"Every time I come to Europe I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world and I especially love the fans,"adds Parton. "We always have such a good time and I've put together a lot of things for this show that I think the fans will love. We had not planned to come back so soon, but we got so much fan mail and such a great reaction that I thought 'Well, why not. If they're having a good time and we always do, let’s just do it'."

In 2011, Dolly continued to receive accolades for what was her most successful European and Australian tour of her 45-plus year career - The Better Day Tour! During the 2011 tour, Dolly performed for record-breaking attendances in both Europe and Australia, surpassing her previous attendance records. In 2008, Dolly performed 17 European shows to over 170,000 fans, surpassing her then-best 2007 European tour, where she played 21 shows for over 140,000 people. Each of these treks grossed in the tens of millions of dollars and established Dolly as Europe's favorite and most successful country artist.

Tour dates and venues are below, for ticket and on-sale information please check with your local market.

NEW ZEALAND/AUSTRALIA Dates

February
7 New Zealand, Auckland - Vector Arena
8 New Zealand, Auckland - Vector Arena **2nd Show
11 Australia, Melbourne - Rod Laver Arena
11 Australia, Melbourne - Rod Laver Arena **2nd Show
15 Australia, NSW, Hunter Valley - Hope Estate
18 Australia, Sydney - Entertainment Centre
21 Australia, Brisbane - Entertainment Centre
22 Australia, Brisbane - Entertainment Centre **2nd Show
25 Australia, Adelaide - Entertainment Centre
27 Australia, Perth - Perth Arena

UK & EUROPE Dates:

June
8 England, Liverpool - Echo Arena
10 Northern Ireland, Belfast - Odyssey Arena
11 Ireland, Dublin - O2 Arena
12 Ireland, Cork - Live At The Marquee
14 England, Newcastle - Metro Radio Arena
15 Scotland, Aberdeen - GE Arena
17 Scotland, Glasgow - Hydro Arena
18 Scotland, Glasgow - Hydro Arena
20 England, Leeds - First Direct Arena
21 England, Manchester - Phones 4U Arena
22 England, Birmingham - LG Arena
24 Wales, Cardiff - Motorpoint Arena
25 Wales, Cardiff - Motorpoint Arena
27 England, London - O2 Arena
28 England, London - O2 Arena

July
2 England, Nottingham - Capital FM Arena
5 Germany, Cologne - Lanxess Arena
6 Germany, Berlin - O2 World
8 Denmark, Copenhagen - Forum
9 Norway, Oslo - Spektrum
11 Sweden, Stockholm - The Globe

Bear Family can not be made responsible for correctness of the touring info

Dolly Parton

Geb. 19. 1. 1946 in Locust Ridge - Tennessee
Record Labels: Goldband, Mercury, Starday, Monument, RCA, Columbia
Erster Hit: Dumb Blonde (1967)
Erster Top Ten Hit: Mule Skinner Blues (1970)
Erster No. 1 Hit: Joshua (1971)

Dolly Rebecca Parton, als viertes von den zwölf Kindern der Partons geboren, ist zweifellos ein Naturtalent. Im Alter von 13 Jahren spielte sie bereits für ein kleines Label in Louisiana ihre ersten Schallplatten ein, in demselben Jahr trat sie zum ersten Male an der Grand Ole Opry auf, nachdem sie drei Jahre lang bei Radio- und Fernsehstationen getingelt hatte. Schon damals hatte sie ihre eigenen Songs geschrieben, Lieder, die fast alle durch einen außergewöhnlichen literarischen Tiefgang auffielen. Sie behandelten Einzelschicksale, Spannungen in Zweierbeziehungen und Geschichten aus ihrer harten Kindheit. Erinnert sei an den Song „Coat Of Many Colours“, eine Reminiszenz an einen Mantel, den ihr ihre Mutter aus bunten Flicken zusammengenäht hatte. 1966 unterschrieb Dolly Parton einen Schallplattenvertrag bei Monument, ein Jahr später folgte der erste Hit. Und noch im gleichen Jahr folgte sie dem Ruf von Porter Wagoner, in dessen Show aufzutreten.

Dolly Parton wurde Porter Wagoner”s Duettpartnerin und ging zur RCA, wo Wagoner schon seit vielen Jahren unter Vertrag stand. Zahlreiche Wagoner - Parton-Duett-L.P.s zeugen von der guten Zusammenarbeit der beiden. Logisch und durchaus folgerichtig bereitete Dolly dann auch ihre Solo-Karriere bei RCA vor. 1970 bereits verbuchte sie ihren ersten Top-Ten-Solo-Hit. Ihre richtige Solo-Karriere begann jedoch erst 1974, nachdem sie sich von Porter Wagoner getrennt hatte. Dolly Parton wurde ein Superstar. Ich bin am besten, wenn ich die alten und einfachen Lieder singe, aber wer es in diesem Business zu etwas bringen will, muss auch Pop machen“, sprachs und produzierte ab Ende der 70er Jahre fast nur noch Pop oder Pop-Country. Das brachte ihr zwar gute Kritiken aus dem Poplager ein, doch die großen Hits schaffte sie auch weiterhin meist in den Country - Charts. Dann kam 1980 der Ruf der Filmindustrie. ln dem Kinofilm „Nine To Five“ spielte die vollbusige Dolly Parton neben Jane Fonda und Lily Tomlin eine Hauptrolle. Dann folgten weitere erfolgreiche Filmproduktionen, zum Beispiel 1982 „The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas“. Das jüngste, beste L.P.-Projekt der Dolly Parton: „Trio“, ein Album zusammen mit Emmylou Harris und Linda Ronstadt, veröffentlicht im März 1987. Mit ihrer ersten L.P. für Columbia ist Dolly Parton wieder zur Pop Musik zurückgekehrt."