DOLLY PARTON Vinilo y CD

Review: Who doesn't love a bit of Dolly Parton? The globally renown queen of country - and the unlikely cult hero who invested heavily in the quest for a Covid-19 vaccine once the pandemic hit - is still turning out plenty of new music. Rockstar is her latest full length and it comes via Butterfly Records and Big Machine Records. It is a collaboration with a variety of rockstars which marks her first moves in the world of rock. Legends like Simon Le Bon and Rob Halford, Pink, Brandi Carlile and Sheryl Crow all feature across eight sides of vinyl and an adventurous and accomplished long player.

Review: The whopping forty-ninth album by country-pop superstar Dolly Parton, Rockstar hears the titanic musician don the vaunted mantle, picking apart what it means to be dubbed a "rockstar" after having been nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, despite not personally considering herself to hail from a rock & roll background. Leveraging her power to channel the spirit of rock despite not resonating with the sound at its origin, Rockstar harnesses the power of collaboration and association - with titanic cameos from Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Linda Perry and Miley Cyrus in tow - to posit an album-length critique of the loudest music genre of the 20th Century.