Dolly Records & Sony Music Nashville announce joint venture | Pre-order new album Pure & Simple

Dolly Records and Sony Music Nashville announce Joint Venture;
Dolly Parton's New Album Pure & Simple Available Worldwide August 19

Left to right: Doug Morris, CEO Sony Music Entertainment; 

Dolly Parton; and, Danny Nozell, CEO CTK Management.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 7, 2016) – Today, world-renowned singer/songwriter/entertainer Dolly Parton and Sony Music Nashville announced a joint venture and the launch of Dolly’s new studio album, Pure & Simple, for worldwide distribution on August 19. Releasing on Dolly Records/RCA Nashville, Pure & Simple can be pre-ordered started on Friday, July 8, 2016.

(19 August 2016) Dolly Parton - Pure & Simple 2-CD (Sony Music Tv Projects)

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Huffington Post UK had the world premiere of the lyric video for Dolly’s new single, Pure & Simple.

You can listen to the track via the lyric video in best quality on VEVO

Or here in the YouTube vid (C) 2016 Dolly Records, LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment

“I may not be pure, but I’m as simple as they come! This new Pure & Simple project is really special to me because I’m taking my fans back to my roots. I feel like these songs have a pure, tender side and we didn’t go overboard with arrangements. I’m so glad we’ve teamed up with our friends at Sony to get this album out to the fans,” said Dolly Parton.

Remarked Doug Morris, CEO, Sony Music Entertainment, “Dolly Parton is a national treasure and an iconic singer/songwriter. We are thrilled to be expanding our successful relationship with her through this new global agreement. We are very proud to call her a member of the Sony Music family.”

“This is a special reunion for Dolly, RCA Nashville and for me personally,” commented Randy Goodman, Chairman and CEO, Sony Music Nashville. “Our entire Sony Music Nashville team is elated.” Continues Goodman, “We have a firm foundation of Dolly’s incredible catalog of hits on RCA Nashville as well as Columbia Nashville.”

Dolly Parton, co-producer and songwriter on Pure & Simple, also revealed the album’s cover art and track listing today (see below).

The release contains the 12-track "Pure & Simple" album on the first disc, and the incredible Glastonbury Live Set from 2014.

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The renowned songwriter produced Pure & Simple herself, writing the songs in what she calls her “little old bitty booth” at her publishing company.

“’Pure & Simple’ is probably gonna be a single,” Parton said in Toronto during a recent press conference. “There’s another one they’re talking about shipping out as a single to hopefully get it played on the radio called ‘Standing Outside Your Door’; it’s a fun little romantic thing.”

Featuring 10 songs (CD1), the prolific writer said, “I always do so many more songs than we need and it’s always so hard to have to leave them off the album.” 

However, some of the songs, such as “Tomorrow Is Forever” and “Say Forever You’ll Be Mine,” were recorded and released in the 70s with Porter Wagoner. Parton, 70, named it Pure & Simple because her current 60-plus date North American tour is a stripped-down configuration with the singer playing up to nine of the instruments herself, including the saxophone…Read More at Billboard:
Dolly Parton Talks 'Pure & Simple': 'This Particular Album Is Almost Like a Garage Band'

Dolly Parton
Album title: Pure & Simple (CD1)
Produced by Dolly Parton

1. Pure and Simple
2. Say Forever You'll Be Mine
3. Never Not Love You
4. Kiss It (And Make It All Better)
5. Can't Be That Wrong
6. Outside Your Door
7. Tomorrow Is Forever
8. I'm Sixteen
9. Head Over High Heels
10. Forever Love

Live From Glastonbury Tracklist (CD2)

1. Fire Medley: Baby I'm Burning / Great Balls of Fire / This Girl Is On Fire           

2. Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That    

3. Jolene  4. Blue Smoke 5. Coat of Many Colors 6. Rocky Top

7. Mud Song 8. Banks of the Ohio 9. Here You Come Again

10. Two Doors Down 11. Islands in the Stream

12. 9 to 5 13. Lay Your Hands On Me (Featuring Richie Sambora)

14. I Will Always Love You

Dolly Parton Clarifies: ‘I Have Not Endorsed Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump’

On July 5, 2016 Dolly Parton clarified comments taken out of context during a recent interview that included a question about the 2016 presidential election. 

Parton released the following statement:

Text: "This morning while I was watching the news I saw many reports that I had endorsed Hillary Clinton. My comment about supporting a woman in the White House was taken out of context. I have not endorsed Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump. I try not to get political but if I am, I might as well just run myself 'cause I've got the hair for it, it's huge, and they could always use more boobs in the race. But seriously, I have not decided who I'm voting for, but no matter what we're gonna be suffering from PMS, Presidential Mood Swings." -- Dolly Parton

ABOUT DOLLY PARTON An internationally renowned superstar, the iconic and irrepressible Dolly Parton has contributed countless treasures to the world of entertainment.

All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during her illustrious career have topped a staggering 100 million records worldwide.

Achieving 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards, Dolly has had 25 songs reach No.1 on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist.

Dolly has garnered 7 Grammy Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, 5 Academy of Country Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards and is one of only five female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award.

Making her film debut in the 1980 hit comedy “9 to 5,” Dolly earned rave reviews for her performance and an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune, along with her second and third Grammy Awards. Roles in “Steel Magnolias,” “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” “Rhinestone,” and “Straight Talk” followed.

Dolly saw a cherished dream become a reality in 1986 with the opening of her own theme park, Dollywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

In 1988, Dolly began the Dollywood Foundation which funds Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library across America and in Canada by giving every preschool child a book each month from the time he or she is born until the child reaches kindergarten. Currently 60,000,000 books are mailed to children in the US, Canada and throughout the UK.

In 1999, Dolly was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2004, the U.S.

Library of Congress presented her with their Living Legend Award for her contribution to the cultural heritage of the United States.

In December 2015, more than 13 million tuned into “Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors” and was the most-watched film on broadcast networks since May 2012.

To learn more about this American icon, visit DollyParton.com

 
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