Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Crippled Bird
2. Something Special
3. Change
4. I Will Always Love You - (with Vince Gill)
5. Green-Eyed Boy
6. Speakin' of the Devil
7. Jolene
8. No Good Way of Saying Good-Bye
9. Seeker, The
10. Teach Me to Trust
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Alison Krauss, Pam Tillis, Sonny Landreth, Suzanne Cox, Vince Gill | | Producer: | Dolly Parton, Steve Buckingham | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Dolly Parton, Vince Gill (vocals); Steve Gibson, Steuart Smith, Brent Mason (acoustic & electric guitars); Steve Buckingham, Don Potter (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young, Brent Rowan (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Sonny Landreth (slide guitar); Assa Drori (violin); Stuart Duncan, Jimmy Mattingly (fiddle); Matt Rollings (piano, organ); Paul Hollowell, Steve Nathan (piano); Randy McCormick (organ); David Hungate, Paul Uhrig (bass); Owen Hale, Steve Turner, Eddie Bayers (drums); Terry McMillan (shaker, percussion); Bob Bailey, Louis Nunley, Duawne Starling, Chris Rodriguiz, Richard Dennison, Jennifer O'Brien-Enoch, Vicki Hampton, Yvonne Hodges, Alison Krauss, Suzanne Cox, Pam Tillis, Carl Jackson, Margie Cates (background vocals).
"I Will Always Love You," with Vince Gill, was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.
"I Will Always Love You," with Vince Gill, won the 1996 Country Music Association Award for Vocal Event Of The Year.
For all her singing, acting and all-around entertaining abilities, one thing that often escapes notice about Dolly Parton is her strength as a songwriter. Everyone knows she sang "Jolene" and "Here You Come Again" and "I Will Always Love You," but it's easy to forget that she wrote those songs and scores of others. SOMETHING SPECIAL collects new versions of "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You" and other Parton classics, along with a handful of new songs, in a sparkling, fresh tribute to Parton the composer.
Backed by a lean band that uses, but never pours on, steel guitars and fiddles, and supported by angelic background vocal arrangements, Parton puts all the emphasis on the songs, as if she were doing an MTV UNPLUGGED session. Thus, there are lots of acoustic guitars, brushed drums and real pianos. On "I Will Always Love You" (a duet with Vince Gill), Parton cuts back on the vocal gymnastics, and instead delivers it as the plain-spoken, bittersweet ode that it is. 1985's "Speakin' Of The Devil" is an upbeat two-step stomp, the kind of country song you can imagine Bonnie Raitt doing, and this band brings a real swing to it.
Among the newer songs is "Crippled Bird," a folk ballad that Roy Acuff could have written 60 years ago. Performed mostly on solo piano, it has the darkly sweet melody of Parton's earliest sad songs. There's also "Teach Me To Trust," a lightly orchestrated, gospel-like love song in which a cynic seeks out her positive side.
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