Quarters for the Jukebox

Dolly Parton returns with Backwoods Barbie … I’m just going to let that title sit out there for a bit. For its title-marketability-cuteness, the album is a nice contrast to some of the recent similarly titled efforts by younger artists in the industry (i.e., Hick Chicks, Redneck Woman). It’s no reckoning like the late, late Johnny Cash albums, but Dolly delivers here with her trusted conviction, along with some Dixie Stampede-sized doses of sincerity and substance. My only complaint is that there are a few brief moments where her transitional album back into mainstream country sounds like it belongs back on the “9 to 5″ soundtrack.

Quarters for the songs: She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals cover); Cologne; The Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson cover).
Worth listening, if you like: Dolly Parton, duh.