Little Sparrow

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Little Sparrow
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released January 2001
Recorded Nashville, Los Angeles, 2000
Genre folk, Bluegrass
Length 52:41
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Steve Buckingham
Professional reviews
Dolly Parton chronology
The Grass Is Blue (1999) Little Sparrow (2001) Halos & Horns (2002)

Little Sparrow was a 2001 Dolly Parton album, the second in a trilogy of folk/Bluegrass albums Parton released between 1999 and 2002. While The Grass Is Blue from 1991, the album's predecessor, featured straightforward bluegrass, Little Sparrow featured a blend of folk and bluegrass styles. In addition to a number of traditional songs and Parton's own compositions, the album featured a reworking of the Collective Soul hit "Shine", as well as a bluegrass version of Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You". The album received positive reviews and reached number 12 on the U.S. country albums chart, Parton's highest charting solo album in nearly a decade.

Among the backing musicians were members of the alternative bluegrass band Nickel Creek.

Parton's recording of "Shine" won a Grammy for best female country vocal performance. The track "Marry Me" was later featured in the Reese Witherspoon film Sweet Home Alabama. In 2008, David Cook, a finalist on the seventh season of American Idol, performed a cover of the song "Little Sparrow" with his own arrangement.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Little Sparrow (Dolly Parton)
  2. Shine (Ed Roland)
  3. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
  4. My Blue Tears (Dolly Parton)
  5. Seven Bridges Road (Steve Young)
  6. Bluer Pastures (Dolly Parton)
  7. A Tender Lie (Randy Sharp)
  8. I Get a Kick Out of You
  9. Mountain Angel (Dolly Parton)
  10. Marry Me (Dolly Parton)
  11. Down From Dover (Dolly Parton)
  12. The Beautiful Lie (David "Butch" McDade)
  13. In The Sweet By And By
  14. Reprise: Little Sparrow (Dolly Parton)

[edit] At the album charts

Chart (2001) Peak
Position
The Billboard 200 (U.S.) 97
U.S. Top Country Albums 12
U.K. Top Country Albums 1 (8 weeks)


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