Dolly Parton Music:

Eagle When She Flies Track Listing:
1. If You Need Me
2. Rockin' Years - Dolly Parton, Parton, Floyd
3. Country Road
4. Silver and Gold - Dolly Parton, Perkins, Carl [Rock
5. Eagle When She Flies
6. Best Woman Wins
7. What a Heartache
8. Runaway Feelin' - Dolly Parton, Springsteen, Bruce
9. Dreams Do Come True - Dolly Parton, Owens, Bill
10. Family
11. Wildest Dreams - Dolly Parton, Davis, Mac

Editorial Review:
Dolly Parton's solo albums of the '80s and '90s are as spotty as a Dalmatian in a leopard-skin coat, as she moved from writing powerful ruminations on isolation and loss, to playing good ol' gals in the movies and dueting with hunks du jour to stay on the charts. With Eagle she manages to rid herself of the tacky production that marred many of her latter releases, only to lose ground to an age-old problem: Parton seems not to be able to weed out her worst work, witness "Dreams Do Come True," a musical romance novel in which she whispers the gooey line, "Like the morning sun, his love moved across every inch of my body." Once out of Janet Dailey mode, however, Parton shines on a host of understated songs, including "Rockin' Years," with Ricky Van. Although it would be years before she made another album equaling the brilliance of her early work, Eagle finds a spark of new promise. --Alanna Nash

Eagle When She Flies Reviews:
Great
2008-11-26 - Awsome. No one can match Dolly on the range she can get her voice when she sings.

I Hear it is Great
2007-11-16 - I bought tis CD for a gift for a friend that has heard it and says that it is great.

Fabulous!
2007-03-31 - I have been looking for this CD forever. Am so glad to have found it.

One of Dolly's finest albums
2004-06-13 - Dolly recorded for Columbia during the late eighties and early nineties, during which time she had three number one country hits during that period, the last of them (Rocking years) coming from this album. Rocking years was originally intended to be a duet with George Jones but he left the label so Ricky van Shelton became the duet partner. The success of the single may have owed more to Ricky (who was fashionable at the time) than Dolly, as American country radio only showed limited interest in the other singles from this album. Despite a lack of airplay, the album sold in vast quantities (well over a million in the USA) and deservedly so.

The songs are mostly excellent, though I confess that the lyrics of Family stretch credibility to the limit. Dolly says that the family is a strong unit and suggests (more eloquently than I can describe) that people will forgive other family members anything. I wish families were as united and strong as Dolly sings, but it's not my experience and I don't know of any family that lives up to the ideals expressed in the song. Maybe Dolly was just doing some wishful thinking when she wrote the song, or maybe her family really is that strong.

The other songs are much more realistic. The two other country hits, Eagle when she flies (an inspiration to women) and Silver and gold (a song about love being more important than money) are among Dolly's finest songs ever. Dolly original recorded What a heartache for the Rhinestone soundtrack but re-recorded it for this album and again for her more recent Halos and horns, so although it wasn't a single it might sound familiar to you, although each recording is distinctive.

Best woman wins, a song about two women fighting over a man, features Lorrie Morgan, although Dolly does most of the singing so perhaps she wins that battle. Other great songs include If you need me, Wildest dreams and Dreams do come true and Runaway feelings, but may favorite here is the upbeat Country road, a song about the love a country woman has for a man from the city.

This overlooked gem will forever be one of my favorite Dolly albums.

She's an eagle when she flies
2004-03-30 - This is a nice album from Dolly. It was released after her successful return to country music with 1989's WHITE LIMOZEEN. This album also gave Dolly a few more hits, and the album went platinum. The album opens with the bluegrass tinged "If You Need Me". "Rockin Years", with Ricky Van Shelton, was Parton's last #1 hit on the country charts. "Silver And Gold" reached #15, and the title track #33. The title track is a very positive ballad, and stands as yet another classic Dolly Parton song. There's a fun duet with Lorrie Morgan called "Best Woman Wins". "What A Heartache" is updated from the RHINESTONE days. "Family" is a nice ballad, very true in it's context. The closing "Wildest Dreams" has become a favorite song of mine, a very nice positive ballad. Overall a nice album from Dolly.