About: Backwoods Barbie CD

Backwoods Barbie is Dolly Parton's first mainstream country album in over 17 years. Parton wrote nine of the songs for the album and produced the CD with band leader and guitarist Kent Wells.

“The song 'Backwoods Barbie' pretty much says it all,” she says. “I grew up poor and ragged, always dreamed of being beautiful like Barbie and the models in the Fredericks catalog. It’s true that the way I look is just a country girl’s idea of glamor, but it comes from an honest place. Backwoods Barbie just seemed like such a perfect title for a country album for me.”

It’s also one of the songs from the forthcoming Broadway musical - “9 to 5 The Musical,” expected to hit New York in the Spring of 2009, for which Dolly also wrote all the words and music.