My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy

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My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released	September 1969
Recorded	1969, RCA Studio "B", Nashville
Genre	Country music
Label	RCA
Producer(s)	Bob Ferguson
Dolly Parton chronology
In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (1969)	Just Because I'm a Woman (1968)	The Fairest of Them All (1970)

My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy was Dolly Parton's third solo album for RCA. originally released in September 1969. The title song, telling the story of a small town girl whose aspirations take her to New Orleans, where she winds up a prostitute, dreaming of the boy she left behind, is regarded by Parton's fans as one of her most haunting compositions. In addition to a number of Parton's compositions, the album also included covers the Mac Davis-penned Elvis Presley hit "In the Ghetto", and Joe South's "Games People Play". She also covers current country hits by Porter Wagoner ("Big Wind"), and Jan Howard ("We Had All the Good Things Going").

Parton would later rerecord the title song for inclusion in her Heartbreak Express album in 1982.

[edit] Track listing

1. In The Ghetto
2. Games People Play
3. 'Til Death Do Us Part
4. Big Wind
5. Evening Shade
6. I'm Fed Up With You
7. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
8. Daddy
9. We Had All The Good Things Going
10. The Monkey's Tale
11. Gypsy, Joe and Me
12. Home For Pete's Sake