![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not a classic lyric but at least she sounds like she’s getting into a nice groove with the delivery. We Got Too Much is a Dolly solo write and has a yacht rock, laid-back style. ![]() It might be a long way from the country music of her early career but at least the production and guitars sound fresh. Both that one and Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot) used different pop songwriters than she’d worked with before. Vocally it’s relaxed and feels like she’s found her sweet spot with this decade’s modern sound. Think About Love opens the album and it is a really entertaining eighties pop song. On first listen to Real Love I was relieved to hear how much better the production is overall, with Dolly sounding like she’s actually enjoying herself, rather than trying too hard to find a hit. ![]() David Malloy had already produced for Kenny and also Tanya Tucker – suggesting he understood how to take country artists and get the best out of them for mainstream audiences. Her decision to switch producer at this point was a wise move considering the underwhelming performance of her last album The Great Pretender. Dolly’s success on that chart was sporadic and patchy – only her biggest songs like Jolene and 9 to 5 ever really made a significant impact.ĭespite the fact that in 1984 she’d scored a country number one with her most traditional sounding song of the decade – Tennessee Homesick Blues from the ‘Rhinestone’ soundtrack – Dolly wasn’t ready to give up her dreams of pop stardom. Unlike Dolly who had come up through Porter Wagoner’s traditional sound of the sixties, Kenny’s country music was a brand of smooth, slick adult contemporary that easily crossed over to the pop charts. Together they would have a pop smash with Islands in the Stream, a successful Christmas album released in 1984, and a country chart topper with the title track of this 1985 album. Therefore working with platinum king Kenny Rogers, who she called ‘ a magical man’ was a no-brainer. If I can’t get my own hit, I’m not too proud to hang on somebody else’s coattails,’ said Dolly in a revealing interview she conducted in the mid-90s. ![]()
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