#257 Dolly Parton, 'Coat of Many Colors' (1971)

Dolly Parton, one of the enduring successes of Country music with her defining album. By her own admission, her family was dirt poor growing up and the autobiographical title track gives us insight into that. Her mother had made a coat of many colours for her with a box of rags that someone had given to them. A coat she was so proud of, yet she was mocked and laughed at at school because of it. A sad and heartbreaking story, but just so typical of Dolly Parton; she didn’t care what people thought.