Personnel: Dolly Parton (guitar); Jerry Stembridge, Jimmy Colvard, Dave Kirby, Jimmy Capps, Bobby Thompson (guitar); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Don Warden (dobro); Buck Trent (banjo); Mary Hoephinger (harp); Johnny Gimble, Mack Magaha (fiddle); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Bobby Dyson (bass instrument); Jerry Carrigan (drums); Dolores Edgin, June Page, Hurshel Wiginton, Joe Babcock (background vocals).

A remastered edition of one of Dolly Parton's most beloved early albums, this 2007 version of MY TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME (originally released in the early '70s) features both hugely improved sound and expanded liner notes. Along with the title track, favorites such as the sardonic Nashville tribute "Down On Music Row" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)" are among Parton's best-known tunes from that era and mark the album as essential for Dolly fans.

My Tennessee Mountain Home is one of the rootsiest records of Dolly Parton's career. With its affectionate homages and salutes to her childhood in Tennessee, the record is a direct and moving slice of mountain music that isn't dressed up in cosmopolitan production. Parton wrote every song on the record, creating a loose, musical autobiography with its 11 songs. Though the sound of the record isn't particularly rowdy, it is heartfelt and rootsy and Parton's songs -- "Old Black Kettle," "The Letter," "The Good Old Days When Times Were Bad," and "The Better Part of Life" -- are among her best, most affecting songs, much like My Tennessee Mountain Home itself. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine