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 Iconic
singer, songwriter, musician, actress
and philanthropist Dolly Parton is proud to
announce her latest recording endeavor, a
partnership between her own label Dolly Records
and Sony Masterworks. The label deal will launch
her new album Blue Smoke in New Zealand/Australia
on January 31, 2014, to coincide with her
international Blue Smoke World Tour which will
hit New Zealand, Australia in February. In
addition, Blue Smoke will be released in the
United States and Europe in May 2014, in advance
of the Blue Smoke World Tour hitting England,
Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Germany, Norway and
Sweden.
“We at Masterworks think that Blue Smoke
sits with Dolly Parton’s very best recorded
work, as global audiences will discover when she
begins her world tour in January 2014. We're very
happy to be associated with this great American
music artist,” says Bogdan Roscic, President
of Sony Masterworks.
 Dolly is the most honored female country
performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA
certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum
awards, she has had 25 songs reach number 1 on
the Billboard Country charts, a record for a
female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country
albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110
career charted singles over the past 40 years.
All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits
collections, paid digital downloads and
compilation usage during her Hall of Fame career
have reportedly topped a staggering 100 million
records worldwide. She has garnered 7 Grammy
Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, 5
Academy of Country Music Awards, 3 American Music
Awards and is one of only five female artists to
win the Country Music Association's Entertainer
of the Year Award.
As a zenith crown to the dreams of country music
that originally brought her to Nashville, Dolly
was inducted as a member of the Country Music
Hall of Fame in 1999. And the litany goes on.
Dolly’s career has spanned nearly five
decades and is showing no signs of slowing down.
An internationally-renowned superstar, the iconic
and irrepressible Parton has contributed
countless treasures to the worlds of music, film
and television. Some of her hit films have
included Nine to Five, Steel Magnolias, The Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas and Rhinestone. Parton
received two Oscar nominations - one for writing
the title tune to Nine to Five and the other for
Travelin’ Thru from the film Transamerica.www.DollyPartonMusic.net
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