Ken Tucker
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453 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Ken Tucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The death of Dolly Parton continues to reverberate, and I hope as people continue to feel her loss, that more of Parton's music is uncovered, rediscovered, and heard by many for the first time.
Because Dolly was a heck of a lot more than I will always love you and coat of many colors.
Her voice and her image were so powerful that they frequently obscured the subtlety of her writing.
So does the sheer amount of music she created.
With all that in mind, I've chosen three Dolly Parton performances I love, and that illustrate different aspects of her achievement.
The first is from nineteen sixty nine, a song she wrote called Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind.
It's a breakup ballad, but it comes at its subject from a typically original angle.
In the lyric, Dolly hasn't actually broken up with the guy yet.
Instead, she senses that he wants to.
But maybe hasn't worked up the nerve or doesn't want to hurt her feelings.
She tells him she's not so sure about him either.
And she'd rather they separate than continue a lukewarm relationship.
It's the prettiest kiss-off song you'll ever hear.
It's also worth noting that Rihanna Giddens recorded a wonderful version of that song on her debut album in twenty fifteen.
The second song I want to play is one of the many duets Parton recorded with Porter Wagner in the late sixties and early seventies.
When they met, he was a big star.
She was young and looking for a break, and he would introduce her on his TV show as Miss Dolly.
As duet partners, they were different from the other great male female duo of that period, George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
Those two were married, singing about restlessness and adultery.
With Porter and Dolly, it was an employer singing with an employee, a mentor with his mentee.
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