Back in the ’70s and early ’80s when I was a kid, my pop ran an advertising agency out of our home, and for reasons that elude me, we were flooded with free magazine subscriptions to ostensibly put in a perceived Mad Men-esque lobby—which didn’t exist.
Among the Times and Newsweeks, we’d receive Jet magazine and Ebony, Cat Fancier, automobile magazines like crazy, sports magazines, and somehow among this list, Country Music magazine where even back then to my developing sensibilities it was clear—Dolly Parton was the Queen of country music.
Now, I don’t know Dolly personally but she seems likes the modest sort who’d brush this perception aside, but it’s clear to me now as it was to wee me—she rules mightily. Then and now.
In fact, Dolly has a new record on store shelves right this very moment—her 42nd—entitled Blue Smoke, and from it she released a special limited edition, blue 7″ for Record Store Day this year with 2 tracks from the new LP, “Home” on the a-side and the title track, “Blue Smoke” on the b-side. That’s it below. Looks lovely, right?
Ms. Parton has autographed a copy of this special 7″ single for The Vinyl District and has tasked us with putting it into the hands of one of you. Didn’t I say she rules mightily?
Enter to win our signed Dolly Parton blue 7″ single by conveying in the comments below why you, as Dolly’s biggest fan, deserve to find this single in your mailbox one fine day. The most convincing and enthusiastic of the bunch will win the single. We’ll choose one winner with a North American mailing address a week from today, June 5th. Make ’em good.
