Those Were The Days (2005)

"Ever since signing with Sugar Hill in 1999, Parton has been on a hot streak, putting out rootsy albums that found her creatively re-energized. This album of her favorite songs from the '60s and '70s, isn't traditional bluegrass by any means, but still rootsy acoustic music, due to both the instrumentation and choice of songs, which are, with the exceptions of Tommy James' "Crimson and Clover" and John Lennon's "Imagine," firmly within the folk and folk-rock tradition of the '60s. It's also a duet album, inviting the original singers or songwriters when they were available, and bringing in newer singers when they were not (like Nickel Creek providing harmonies on Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," Norah Jones and Lee Ann Womack for "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," and Keith Urban for "Twelfth of Never"). The arrangements are at once tasteful, imaginative, and relatively unsurprising - just vivid, successful, slight reworkings of familiar songs that make them sound fresh again." (S.T. Erlewine, Allmusic)