Performer Notes

Personnel: Dolly Parton (vocals); Richie Owens (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitar, mandolin, dobro, bouzouki, autoharp, harmonica); Gary Davis (acoustic guitar, banjo); Bob Ocker (acoustic & electric guitars); Al Perkins (pedal steel) ; Gary Mackey (mandolin, fiddle); Johnny Laufer (strings, piano, organ); Randy Leago (accordion); Mark Brooks (acoustic & electric basses); Eric Rupert (bass); Bob Grundner (drums, percussion); Rhonda Vincent, Darrin Vincent, Richard Dennison, Jennifor O'Brien, Joy Gardner, Louis Nunley, Brian Waldschlar, Judy Ogle, Teresa Hughes, Ira Parker, Lois Baker, Paul Brewster, Jimmy Bolin & the House of Prayer Congregation (background vocals).
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Personnel: Richie Owens (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, dobro, bouzouki, autoharp, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals); Bob Ocker (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Rev. Gary Davis (acoustic guitar, banjo); Gary Mackey (mandolin, fiddle); Johnny Lauffer (strings, piano, organ); Randy Leago (accordion); Mark A. Brooks (upright bass); Bob Grundner (drums, percussion); Jennifer O'Brien, Darrin Vincent, Brian Waldschlager, Honky Tonk Women, Judy Ogle, Lois Baker, Rachel Dennison, Teresa Hughes, House of Prayer Congregation, Ira Parker, Jim Boling, Joy Gardner, Paul Brewster, Rhonda Vincent, Richard Dennison, Louis Dean Nunley (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Marshall Morgan.
Recording information: Train Traxx.
Photographers: Jim Herrington; J.R. Rabourn; Matthew Barnes ; Jason Pirro.
Unknown Contributor Role: Richie Owens.
Recorded in the basement studio of Richie Owens, Parton's cousin, HUNGRY AGAIN is an intensely personal album that mixes country, bluegrass, folk and gospel while highlighting Dolly's crystalline voice. The stripped-down songs, mostly dealing with longtime love gone awry, seem to spring from Dolly's need to get back to her roots, rather than any desire to scale the country charts. She gets high lonesome on bluegrass-tinged numbers like "Time and Tears" and "I Wanna Go Back There," and goes all-out gospel on the closing track, "Shine On."
Two story songs, "Blue Valley Songbird" and "Paradise Road," recall earlier compositions like her classic "Coat of Many Colors." "Honky Tonk Songs" is the only track that's vaguely commercial--it's a rockin' number that asks why all the good cry-in-your-beer tunes have been sung by men, and not women. HUNGRY AGAIN proves that under the wigs and makeup, Dolly Parton is still an amazingly emotional vocalist and writer. Thanks for reminding us.

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (9/11/98, p.133) - "...Writing with the sharp-eyed clarity of her early work, she moves through mountain confessionals, honky-tonk heartache, and gospel truths, and turns a midlife crisis into an artistic rebirth." - Rating: B+

Q (12/99, p.126) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...a bunch of thigh-slapping trad country songs, just like she did before Shania Twain arrived on the scene and, in all probability, just like she will after new country has faded. Powered by Duracell, surely."

Album: Hungry Again
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hungry Again
2)	Salt in My Tears, The
3)	Honky Tonk Songs
4)	Blue Valley Songbird
5)	I Wanna Go Back There
6)	When Jesus Comes Calling for Me
7)	Time and Tears
8)	I'll Never Say Goodbye
9)	Camel's Heart, The
10)	I Still Lost You
11)	Paradise Road
12)	Shine On

Album: Hungry Again
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hungry Again
2)	Salt in My Tears, The
3)	Honky Tonk Songs
4)	Blue Valley Songbird
5)	I Wanna Go Back There
6)	When Jesus Comes Calling for Me
7)	Time and Tears
8)	I'll Never Say Goodbye
9)	Camel's Heart, The
10)	I Still Lost You
11)	Paradise Road
12)	Shine On