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Burlap & Satin / Real Love

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The last of the 2fer import titles includes two of my favorite Dolly RCA albums. The first is 1983's "Burlap & Satin" which includes some of Dolly's classics. The first is the incredible "Appalchian Memories" which she has since changed to "Smokey Mountain Memories", same song, different title. This is the original version and one of her best. The album includes Dolly's pop hit "Potential New Boyfriend" which was a hit at the time but has since become somewhat forgettable. The album includes one of Dolly's tearjerkers in "A Gamble Either Way", it ends with the gospel number "Calm On The Water" which contains a chorus that Dolly would use again years later in her song "High And Mighty".

The second half of this disc is Dolly's last RCA album, "Real Love". The album doesn't really sound like her other albums, she seemed to be on automatic pilot for this one, but it's a great collection either way. The overall theme for the album is clearly "love" as the word appears in four of the albums ten titles. It also includes "I Hope You're Never Happy" which was heard in her movie "Rhinestone", although not by her in the movie. This album also features one of my favorite Dolly album covers.

A word about all of these reissues, all three feature notes and original album cover artwork, front and back, and liner notes. It also interesting to note that, although not intentional the album covers as paired together here all look similar to each other.

Thanks to Stephen Munns for heading this project, perhaps we can get Dolly's 1982 album "Heartbreak Express" on CD in the near future.

Finally after all these years two wonderful Pop/Country albums that first were released on LP, are on one CD together. "Burlap & Satin" features one of Dolly Parton's most beautiful album covers that she's ever made & the artcover to "Real Love" is equally beautiful.

The album's first ten songs are from "Burlap & Satin" which were released in 1983. They contain some of Dolly's best of the 1980s like the moving & heartbreaking "Appalachian Memories" which she wrote for her father who tryed making it in the big city, but couldn't, it also is one of Dolly's fan's favorites too. A enjoyable "I Really Don't Want To Know" which is a duet with Willie Nelson and "Potential New Boyfriend" which was a top twenty country single (even though it's more Pop) and was accompanied by Dolly's first ever music video. Another songs on the first half are kind of forgettable but still good like "A Cowboy's Ways" and "A Gamble Either Way" which were outtake songs from Dolly's movie "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas".

The second half of the album is from "Real Love" which was released in 1985 and was Dolly's last album for RCA. The second part also contains more pop then "Burlap & Satin" contained. The highlighted songs from the second half is "Think About Love", "Tie Our Love (In A Double Knot)", "Don't Call It Love" and "Real Love" (a duet with Kenny Rogers that reached #91 on the U.S. pop charts). My only problem with this two albums on one disc is the sound, it's very low and theres no bass in any of the songs, however the price is great!.

Both of these albums include their original artwork from the LPs inside the CD booklet, it also haves linernotes, but no lyrics.

love these albums - must have for any collector of Dolly's music.

Great 80s music from the queen of country. Real Love is one of her best! Campy fun!

These two albums together are such a delight! Burlap & Satin has some of the most tender and sweet songs Dolly ever released and Real Love has some timeless greats also. Real Love is my fav out of this collection & every single released from it was superb. These are MUST HAVES for Dolly, Country, or Pop fans alike!

BURLAP AND SATIN was never a great favorite of mine, but Dolly's duet with Willie, and her sweet and spacey cover of "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" make it worth owning. REAL LOVE, on the other hand, is just about as perfect a pop confection as Dolly has ever produced. All the songs are appropriate choices for Dolly to sing, and although the production is slick and commercial, it doesn't overpower Parton's little-girl voice. "Tie Our Love In A Double Knot" is so silly that it shouldn't work, but Dolly sings it with such verve, and the partially electronic backing is so punchy, that it ends up being delightful. I find this album to be among the more successful of her mostly-pop efforts, along with HEARTBREAKER and HERE YOU COME AGAIN. She rarely worked pop/rock into her act with such energy and power as she does on REAL LOVE, but what makes this CD release even more significant is how it sounds compared to the albums on vinyl. REAL LOVE is especially improved. The sound is crystal-clear, and the record level has been bumped up a notch (the vinyl was a little too quiet and somewhat muddy-sounding). I'm very happy to have this fine CD "twofer."

This is Dolly at the top of her game. This cd shows a contemporary side, with a hint the of 50's and 60's era thrown in, to Dolly while still letting her remain country.

I've been looking for these two on CD forever! About 12 years ago my cassettes broke... totally used to schreds... and not until now did I get the CD's :) I recommend these to anyone who loves Dolly's incredible voice, song lyrics, her tender touch to both romance and heart ache and just everything Dolly :)

My faves from these two? I love these albums, but if I had to pick I'd listen to Gamble either way, Appalachian memories, Once in a very blue moon... and... of course... the VERY funny I hope you're never happy :D

"Burlap and Satin" makes it debut in CD format and this makes "Real Love's" second appearance on CD. The original CD version of "Real Love" goes for a lot of bucks as it has been out of print for years so it's nice to see it get a renewed life again. Two great Dolly albums with perfect sound and wonderful CD artwork. Get these copies while they last as they will become collector's items very soon.

On today's date, December 29, 2010....this item is selling for $199.00 on the Amazon.com website located in the US. Also on today's date, this same item is selling for about $14.00 on the Amazon.com website in Germany. Both items are new and identical. Looks to me like someone is extremely greedy!