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".

Heartsongs: Live from Home
Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 1994
RecordedApril 23–24, 1994
GenreCountry, gospel
Length75:17
LanguageEnglish
Irish
LabelColumbia Nashville/Blue Eye Records
ProducerSteve Buckingham
Dolly Parton chronology
Honky Tonk Angels
(1993)
Heartsongs: Live from Home
(1994)
Something Special
(1995)
Singles from Heartsongs: Live from Home
  1. "To Daddy"
    Released: October 3, 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

“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. [3]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Heartsong"Dolly Parton5:25
2."I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"A.P. Carter2:52
3."Mary of the Wild Moor"Joseph W. Turner4:06
4."In the Pines"Traditional2.42
5."My Blue Tears"Dolly Parton2:47
6."Applejack"Dolly Parton3:35
7."Coat of Many Colors"Dolly Parton4:21
8."Smoky Mountain Memories"Dolly Parton4:11
9."Night Train to Memphis"Owen Bradley, Marvin Huges, Beasley Smith2:42
10."What a Friend We Have in Jesus"Charles Converse, Joseph Scriven2:47
11."Hold Fast to the Right"James D. Vaughan2:32
12."Walter Henry Hagan"Dolly Parton3:40
13."Barbara Allen"Traditional (English), Irish lyrics by Proinsias Ó Maonaigh (performed by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh)5:24
14."Brave Little Soldier"Dolly Parton3:54
15."To Daddy"Dolly Parton2:55
16."True Blue"Dolly Parton, James Newton Howard3:06
17."Longer Than Always"Dolly Parton2:59
18."Wayfaring Stranger"Traditional3:09
19."My Tennessee Mountain Home"Dolly Parton3:22
20."Heartsong (Reprise)"Dolly Parton2:20
21."Cas Walker Theme" 0:58
22."Black Draught Theme" 1:24
23."PMS Blues"Dolly Parton5:36

Personnel

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  • 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

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Chart (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 16
U.S. Billboard 200 87
Australia (ARIA Charts)[4] 175
Canadian RPM Country Albums 7

References

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  1. ^ Weber, Barry. Heartsongs: Live from Home at AllMusic
  2. ^ Colin Larkin (2006). "Parton, Dolly". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6 (4th ed.). Muze, Oxford University Press. p. 435–6. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. ^ Harris, Emmylou. "'Heartsongs: Live From Home'". Dollyparton.com. Dollyparton.com. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. ^ "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.
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