Forget everything you ever thought about Dolly Parton the Hollywood star with pneumatic mammary glands and a busload of wigs. Herewith, meet the real Dolly, serious bluegrass musician, accompanied by a bunch of really serious bluegrass musicians: dobroist Jerry Douglas, fiddle player Stuart Duncan, bassist Barry Bales, mandolinist Sam Bush, guitarist Bryan Sutton and banjoist Jim Mills. This is the greatest album Dolly has ever released. This is non-electrified bluegrass as God intended, before those devilish clowns in Nashville perverted the doctrine of bitter and lonesome yearnings. The compositions include the classical (Ira & Charlie Louvin’s “Cash On The Barrelhead,” Lester Flatt’s “I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open” and the homicidally evergreen “Silver Dagger”), the unexpected (Billy Joel’s “Travelin’ Prayer”) and a quartet of Dolly’s mournful originals (“Steady As The Rain,” “Endless Stream of Tears,” “Will He Be Waiting For Me” and “The Grass Is Blue”). Bluegrass is supposed to be sad and Dolly’s voice has got all the disconsolate nuances of hopelessness down. And her latest hairstyle is spectacular.