This is a very short blog which, in essence, points you back to last week’s Old Timers blog. The irony of this is that last week’s post celebrated older artists who are still making innovative music. It’s not been lost on so many of us that Dolly Parton at eighty still seemed to have so many new ideas and potential projects. In case you didn’t hear us last week, we tore up that Old Timers show and spent the two hours celebrating Dolly Parton after the shock news of her death which broke an hour before we went on air.
You can still listen via the BBC Sounds Page/App and on this week’s show we’ll bring you the show we meant to broadcast last week. I will also slip in some more Dolly to remind you of her great talent. We will also pay tribute to the man who was Dolly’s collaborator for so many years and so many great records, Porter Waggoner. I’ve been thinking a lot about Dolly and Porter this last week and playing many of their great cuts in the house over the last few days. We’ll share one of the great ones with you.
I suspect that we, along with many other broadcasters, will be digging deep into Dolly’s brilliant catalogue to share gems over the next few years. She left behind an incredible legacy to which we still need to pay respect.
As ever, we will be on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Scotland from five past eight this coming Tuesday evening. Join me if you can.