Better Day

 (33 customer reviews)

After waiting nearly three and a half years fans of Dolly Parton can rejoice in the fact that Dolly has a brand new studio album out called "Better Day", with her last full album being 2008's "Backwoods Barbie", although Dolly did release the live record "Dolly-Live From London" in 2009 and a year before that she had released "Sha-kon-O-Hey" which was sold exclusively at Dollywood to benefit the "Friends of the Smokies" organization.

"Better Day" features 12 original Dolly Parton-penned songs with their themes being very uplifting. She wanted to do an album at this time with a positive angle because of the hard times in the world. The record has been released to coincide with her "Better Day World Tour" which will see her perform in concert starting in July in the U.S., then it's off to Europe, then back to America for a few more dates, then in November she will play Australia for the first time in over 20 year. In 2012 she will also be performing in Canada and finish off...Read more

Iconic legendary Superstar Dolly Parton hits new heights throughout "Better Day" with a winning program of infectous & uplifting songs sung with lots of soul and great arrangements sounding like musicians were truly inspired by the legendary lady and her great new program of stunning originals...wanting to give the world a positive boost in troubled times, Dolly has succeeded with flying colors!
"Together You And I" is a wonderful new love song filled with those catchy hooks when it is Dolly at her best like "9 to 5" and this new exhuberant song should enjoy same success as that Dolly classic. Throughout this remarkable masterwork, material is first-rate and "Better Day" should be a huge success for the durable singer/songwriter and hopefully the music industry & radio will rise to the occasion and give deserved accolades and airplay to a stellar work from a lady who has been going strong for some fifty years and counting...Bravo Dolly!

If you don't think you like classic country, listen to Dolly. If you think you don't like pop, listen to Dolly. If you think you don't like newer country, give "Better Day" a try and you just might. I try and listen to today's country radio and I get bored real fast. Here, Dolly tries her hand at today's country music and as always she not only succeeds, she makes it better. If this was played on the radio I would listen for sure. As always Dolly delivers excellent songs written all by her with help from only Mac Davis on one track (Country Is). This CD focuses on being positive and trying again. Some of the best tracks are "I Just Might". It's a song that if you need some inspiration on starting over, you won't find any better than this one. "In The Meantime" is a song that tells us that no matter what beliefs are, religious or otherwise, we need to enjoy the present as none of us really know what's going to happen. I actually was struck by one negative review I read that called this...Read more