The Fairest of Them All

The Fairest of Them All lacks any of Dolly Parton’s early masterpieces -- and it even lacks a major hit single, with the opening “Daddy Come and Get Me” getting no further than 40 on the charts -- but song-for-song it’s one of her strongest early LPs, a testament to her knack for creating finely-honed character sketches and vignettes.