Heartsongs: Live from Home

Heartsongs: Live from Home is a live album by Dolly Parton, released on September 27, 1994. Recorded at a concert at Parton's theme park Dollywood, the album featured a mix of Parton originals and traditional folk songs. "To Daddy" was one of Parton's compositions that she had never previously released; Emmylou Harris, who recorded the song in 1978, took her recording of the song to the U.S. country singles top three). The campy "PMS Blues" went on to become a concert favorite, and received a fair amount of airplay as an album track. Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh sang Irish vocals on "Barbara Allen".

“Heartsongs: Live From Home” spoke of Dolly’s desire to share her roots with her fans and celebrates the rich musical heritage of the Smoky Mountains. In an interview right before she recorded the album Dolly said,

“It’s about my life and my roots and my growing up days… It’s about the connection between the Scottish music, the Irish music, the English music, and the Welsh music that has been brought over to the Smoky Mountains that I grew up singing.”

The original song “To Daddy” was a first-time recording for Dolly but had been released in an earlier version by Emmylou Harris.

Personnel

 * Altan - vocals
 * Mairead Nimahonaigh - vocals, fiddle
 * Frankie Kennedy - flute
 * Ciaran Curran - bouzouki
 * Daithi Gproule - guitar
 * Ciaran Tourish - fiddle
 * Dermot Bryne - accordion
 * Jerry O'Sullivan - uilleann pipes
 * Timothy White - photography
 * Alison Krauss - harmony vocals, fiddle
 * Suzanne Cox - harmony vocals
 * Rhonda Vincent - harmony vocals
 * Darrin Vincent - harmony vocals
 * Carl Jackson - harmony vocals, guitar
 * Randy Scruggs - guitar
 * Harry Stinson - drums
 * Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
 * Jimmy Matthingly - fiddle
 * David Lindley - Bronson acoustic steel, Hawaiian acoustic steel, dulcimer, autoharp, claw hammer banjo
 * Adam Steffey - mandolin
 * Ron Block - banjo
 * Ronnie McCoury - mandolin
 * Robbie Mercury - banjo
 * Pig Robbing - piano
 * Jerry Douglas - dobro
 * Bruce Watkins - guitar
 * Steve Buckingham - guitar
 * Viktor Krauss - upright bass
 * Richard Dennison - background vocals
 * Jennifer O'Brien-Enoch - background vocals
 * Lisa Silver - background vocals
 * Louis Nunley - background vocals