Dolly Parton - In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (1969/2019) [Hi-Res]

The title track off Dolly Parton's third solo album, 1969's In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (RCA Victor), avoids empty nostalgia. That term better applies to a lot of other country music trends and songs. Examples include pretending that people in the Old West sat around singing in snazzy outfits instead of fending for their lives, or, more recently, Hank Williams Jr.'s alt-history about the South winning the Civil War. Instead of longing for an exaggerated take on the past, Parton wrote about looking back realistically while acknowledging a need to move forward.