Recorded on her 2008 Backwoods Barbie tour, the 2009 CD/DVD set Live from London is Dolly Parton's first live release since 2004's Live and Well. That generous 23-track collection arrived on the heels of her turn-of-the-millennium trio of bluegrass albums and appropriately drew deeply on that trilogy, whereas this casts the net a little wider, retaining some of that mountain music but adding more classic hits along with several selections from Backwoods Barbie, of course. That 2008 album was her poppiest in a spell, so it follows that Live from London is also a big glitzy production, with Parton coming out to the strains of "Hello Dolly" and supported by legions of backing vocalists, guitarists, and keyboardists. It's not intimate; it's a crowd-pleasing extravaganza delivered by an old pro who knows how to give the audience, whether they're in the arena or listening at home, exactly what they want.
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Live from London Review
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Track Listing - Disc 1
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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| 1 | Dolly Parton | 04:16 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 2 | Dolly Parton | 02:59 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 3 | Dolly Parton | 03:24 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 4 | Dolly Parton | 03:05 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 5 | Dolly Parton | 05:30 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 6 | Dolly Parton | 04:06 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 7 | Dolly Parton | 04:29 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 8 | Dolly Parton | 05:42 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 9 | Dolly Parton | 04:16 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 10 | Dolly Parton | 02:54 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 11 | Dolly Parton | 02:58 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 12 | Dolly Parton | 03:32 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 13 | Dolly Parton | 03:14 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 14 | Dolly Parton | 04:22 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 15 | Dolly Parton | 05:58 | SpotifyAmazon |
Track Listing - Disc 2
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