My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy

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My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy cover
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released September 1969
Recorded 1969, RCA Studio "B", Nashville
Genre Country music
Length 32:25
Label RCA
Producer 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.

Contents

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The album contains some of Parton's most morose compositions. 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. "Gypsy, Joe and Me" details the story of a woman, her love and their small dog, who all eventually perish. And "Evening Shade" tells the story of an orphanage run by an evil headmistress, "Mrs. Bailey". The orphans eventually burn the home down, with "Mrs. Bailey" sleeping inside. Yet another classic Parton lyric, "Daddy," spins the tale of a daughter pleading with her father to reconsider leaving her mother for a woman much younger.

Also included are Parton's covers of the Mac Davis-penned Elvis Presley hit "In the Ghetto", and Joe South's "Games People Play". She also covered 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.

In a CMT interview with Patty Loveless, Parton confirmed that the man in the corner of the album cover is her reclusive longtime husband, Carl Dean.

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  1. In The Ghetto (Mac Davis)
  2. Games People Play (Joe South)
  3. 'Til Death Do Us Part (Dolly Parton)
  4. Big Wind (Wayne P. Walker, Alex Zanetis, George McCormick)
  5. Evening Shade (Dolly Parton)
  6. I'm Fed Up With You (Bill Owens)
  7. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy (Dolly Parton)
  8. Daddy (Dolly Parton)
  9. We Had All The Good Things Going (Marvin Shiner, Jerry Monday)
  10. The Monkey's Tale (Leona Reese)
  11. Gypsy, Joe and Me (Dolly Parton)
  12. Home For Pete's Sake (Rudy Preston)

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (1969) Peak
Position
The Billboard 200 (U.S.) 194
U.S. Top Country Albums 6

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