Thundering over the horizon like a stampeding herd of glittery elephants, Dolly Parton’s forty-ninth studio album is a 30-track sprawl of guitar-revving soft rock originals, classic cover versions and superstar duets. It is also the 77-year-old Queen Of Country’s most deranged project yet, a towering wedding cake of syrupy excess and Elvis-in-Vegas naffness.
Seven decades of rock and pop history are mulched together here, from a huge treacle-drenched Let It Be featuring Paul and Ringo, to hen-party karaoke versions of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Stairway to Heaven, Purple Rain, We Are The Champions, Free Bird and more.
