Honky Tonk Angels

Infobox Album
Name = Honky Tonk Angels
Type = Album
Artist = Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette


Released =
Recorded = 1993
Genre = Country
Length = ?:?
Label = CBS
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fnfexq8gldae link]
Last album = "Slow Dancing with the Moon"
(1993)
This album = "Honky Tonk Angels"
(1993)
Next album = ""
(1994)

"Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1993 Columbia Records album historically teaming country legends Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette. The album was produced by Parton and Steve Buckingham. The album had been a long-rumored project between the country queens for over a decade and received much publicity and acclaim upon its release, although its only single release, a remake of the longtime country female vocalist staple "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", barely dented the charts. likely due to ageism from country radio. Record sales, however, placed the album at #6 on Billboard's country album chart and #42 on Billboard 200, the pop album chart becoming Wynette's second-highest ranking album on the pop chart and Lynn's highest on the pop chart until her 2005 album Van Lear Rose.

The album features many country standards, including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (which features a guest vocal appearance by the song's originator and the original country queen, Kitty Wells), "Wings of a Dove" (a 1960 hit for Ferlin Husky), "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (a 1953 hit for The Davis Sisters (country) aka Skeeter Davis and Betty Jack Davis), "Put it Off Until Tomorrow" (a 1966 Bill Phillips hit that was Parton's first success as a songwriter), "Lovesick Blues" (a pop standard because known for Hank Williams' 1949 rendition, here the trio sings along with a vintage recording of the song by Patsy Cline), and "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven", Tex Ritter's 1962 classic that features new spoken dialogue, presumably written by Parton.

The original songs by Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette appear to be solo performances by each of them with harmony vocals by Parton and "Sittin' on the Front Porch Swing" appears to be a Parton solo. The recording features liner notes written by Ralph Emery.

Tracks

#It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (J. D. Miller)
#Put it Off Until Tomorrow (Dolly Parton/Bill Owens)
#Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Jack Rhodes/Hal Blair)
#"Sittin' on the Front Porch Swing" (Buddy Sheffield)
#Wings of a Dove (Bob Ferguson)
#I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (Cecil A. Null)
#"Wouldn't it Be Great" (Loretta Lynn)
#"That's the Way it Could Have Been" (Tammy Wynette)
#"Let Her Fly" (Dolly Parton)
#Lovesick Blues (Cliff Friend/Irving Mills)
#I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven (Hal Sothern/Eddie Dean)

External links

* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/honkyta/index.shtml Honky Tonk Angels] at dollyon-line.com