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Jack White to produce Dolly Parton's next album?

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Feb 8, 2010 9:03 p.m. MacStevenXIII:

Maybe
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Feb 8, 2010 10:12 p.m. jukebox:

She was on TV last year stateing that she built her own studio to do her own work and cut the big boys out. Hmm, must not have worked out!
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Feb 9, 2010 6:17 a.m. Richard Hudson:

I think that was Dolly's way of saying, "Don't call me. I'll call you."
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Feb 9, 2010 6:31 a.m. bobbyrivera:

I personally hope he has nothing to do with her next album.
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Feb 9, 2010 12:55 p.m. Joel:

I think she'd be better off with Jack White than any current country label out of Nashville....
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Feb 9, 2010 12:59 p.m. fauves:

I agree with Joel, might be just what she needs. Dolly is a legend and should have some new material that puts that light back on her.

Look what Rick Rubin did for Mr Cash.
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Feb 9, 2010 12:59 p.m. JBennett:

She might have White over to her own studio to record her music.

Just because you build yourself a studio doesn't make you a producer. It just means you can work at home, drop the money you would pay for a week of studio time in LA or Nashville and get the KEEP all the gear, and bring whoever over to place the mics and set the levels.

I hope this happens. I like old Dolly records and I like Jack White productions.
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Feb 9, 2010 1:42 p.m. Deed Eddy:

Dolly has had her own label for a few years. She recently cut a project strictly for sale at Cracker Barrel restaurants. Her new CD, which is #1 on the country chart in the UK, is a live album recorded in London, also on her own label.

She can pretty well do whatever she wants to. An amazing businesswoman, she is also a champion of literacy. Dolly created the Imagination Library in 1996 for the children in her home town of Sevierville, Tenn. The program provides a new, age-appropriate, high-quality book every month to children from birth to age five at no cost to the family, regardless of income. This program has been adopted by many cities and counties across the US, Canada, and England.
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Feb 9, 2010 1:52 p.m. Proteus:

In my book, Ms Parton can do (and has done) no wrong. World-class voice, prolific and gifted songwriter (I think she estimates she's written literally thousands of songs), sharp as they come, an astute businessperson who put it all together from nothing, by all reports a true gentlewoman, heart-a-gold and all that – and funny. Pure class.

Nobody runs her over, and if she opts to work with Jack White (who's not as whatever as detractors think), I suspect there'll be a valid musical reason for it.

Dolly's one of my heroes, actually.

Favorite line: "I don't mind when people think I'm a dumb blonde, because I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not a blonde."
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Feb 9, 2010 1:54 p.m. GreatGretsch:

That whole Crossroads thing is hot now. Pair a country person with a rock and roller.
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Feb 9, 2010 1:55 p.m. macphisto:

Jack White is as fake as the day is long. and if there's one thing post-milennial country music doesn't need, it's more fakeness.
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Feb 9, 2010 2:01 p.m. Mikey:

How is Jack White fake? Not trying to start anything, just wondering what you mean by that.

Does he not play guitar (and drums and bass)? Does he not write songs?
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Feb 9, 2010 2:11 p.m. bombcityrocker:

I kinda hate Jack White's music myself, with the sole exception of The Dead Weather, but they guy knows how to write shit that sells. FWIW, I think him and Dolly could knock out a pretty good album.

Personally, I think Jack and Willie should cut an album together.
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Feb 9, 2010 2:16 p.m. gretschiam:

Sorry, I'm a detractor of JW. I even have some of his stuff, but really because it's quirky more than good.

Dolly Parton, on the other hand, is the real thing. Except for Dollywood (I know, there's a purpose for that, too), she can do no wrong. I admire her as a human being, a songwriter, a musician, a philanthropist and a sunny person who always makes me smile. I just wish there were more people like her.
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Feb 9, 2010 2:21 p.m. BuddyHollywood:

I'm in the middle of watching "It Might Get Loud" and Jack White is the real deal. I was not much on board with The White Stripes although I like a handful of their songs but his other two bands are great. Just the fact that he can have 3 bands going at once, do a movie with The Edge and Jimmy Page and produce other artists at the same time is proof that he is sincere about his art and his chosen profession. Jack White is a really good producer, songwriter, guitar player, singer and most surpising of all a great drummer.
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Feb 9, 2010 2:21 p.m. teryeah:

Well, why not? Daniel Lanois and later Malcolm Burns worked wonders for Emmylou, IMO
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Feb 9, 2010 3:01 p.m. fauves:

I agree in case I didn't state it clearly earlier. Dolly is great, a legend.

I just think that a release like that would introduce her to a lot of people who would not know about her otherwise.

he will get more why are you doing that than she will.
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Feb 9, 2010 3:03 p.m. JBennett:

I don't know. I think this is a great production. Sounds like a band, playing in a room... a rare sound in country music now. Right up my alley at least.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I would kill for modern popular country music to sound exactly like this, but that isn't going to happen, so I'll take what I can get.
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Feb 9, 2010 3:10 p.m. fauves:

or how about this

you could hear Dolly singin on that
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Feb 9, 2010 3:37 p.m. JBennett:

Damn fauves. Now you are really making me want to hear this imaginary Dolly record.
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Feb 9, 2010 3:39 p.m. Richard Hudson:

I have always been a big fan of Dolly's. Who couldn't be? With that laugh, and the most unbelievable voice in the business; and a couple of other rather noticeable assets. My favorite Dolly line is "I spend a lot money to look this cheap."

I remember back when she was on the Porter Wagoner show, Speck Rhodes and Porter were doing their standup routine and Speck asked Porter, "Have you ever noticed how small Miss Dolly's feet are?" Speck continued on, "well, you know nothing can grow in the shade."
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Feb 9, 2010 3:47 p.m. singlecutaway:

After all these years and still no back problems, hey, what ever works
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Feb 9, 2010 3:56 p.m. bobbyrivera:

fauves said: I agree in case I didn't state it clearly earlier. Dolly is great, a legend.

I just think that a release like that would introduce her to a lot of people who would not know about her otherwise.

he will get more why are you doing that than she will.

I see your point, but that still doesn't make him a good producer or songwriter. When Rick Rubin did the Johnny Cash stuff he never considered himself to be a great producer. He said in an interview that he basically did nothing.

On the Loretta tune, Jack White didn't do anything that half the traditional country bands (I mean fairly underground bands that are still playing real country music) haven't already been doing for decades. The same goes for his garage rock stuff. He's overrated hype IMO.
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Feb 9, 2010 4:13 p.m. JBennett:

Well, the concept of overrated is kind of a weak argument. The outside world "rates" or "overrates" an artist. That isn't their fault. Anyone who becomes a household name will be called overrated, because most people like junk, and the smaller group of discerning listeners, like yourself, will see him as standing on the shoulders of giants who were still doing it the old fashioned way first.

No great artist is doing for the "rating".

He has good taste and is in a position of power due to the great big roulette wheel of commercial success and pop trends. You kind of admit that he's doing good production work when you say that he's doing what many traditional country bands are doing (assuming you approve of those country bands and their methods).

And Rick Rubin is just being modest. He did give those Cash records their own unique sound by doing very little. That is what a good producer does. Decides NOT to set up a digital echo chamber over Johnny's voice, and NOT to flip the "chorus" switch on the JC-120. Just get a good engineer into a small room with a big man, and capture a raw, clean performance. When Rick Rubin says he did nothing, he's wrong. Those are great recordings.

Jack White tries very hard to keep his recordings loose and free of many of the modern trappings that some people agree make a recording sound sterile and bland.
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Feb 9, 2010 4:23 p.m. silverjetstaff:

All of the albums Dolly and Porter did together are simply amazing. Their voices meld together like a dream. Also "Jeannies Afraid of the Dark" is possibly the saddest song I have ever heard.