Blue Smoke Songwriting Credits by Dolly Parton

Blue Smoke is the forty-first studio album by Dolly Parton, released in May 2014 on Sony Music. It is a collection of new recordings and re-recordings of earlier material, timed in part for international release in territories including New Zealand and Australia where Parton maintained a significant touring presence. Parton wrote or co-wrote several tracks; the album includes new versions of classics alongside original material in the country-pop and bluegrass-influenced style that characterizes her independent-era work. The album reached the top twenty on the Billboard Country chart in the United States and performed strongly in New Zealand, where it reached the top ten, reflecting the global breadth of Parton's audience. Blue Smoke is primarily significant in the context of Parton's overall catalog as a consistent production of new material across a sixth decade of recording activity, an output sustained by a songwriting practice that Parton described as producing new material almost daily, rather than as a commercial or artistic peak. The album demonstrates the remarkable consistency of Parton's commercial presence across five decades of the country music industry, a durability that is directly attributable to the songwriting quality and personal authenticity that have characterized her work since the earliest Monument recordings.