The greatest male-female duet in country music! 'They made all other duet teams sound like footnotes' (critic John Morthland).

Includes 21 timeless hits: Holding On To Nothin', Just Someone I Used To Know, Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man, and Making Plans, as well as the #1 smash Please Don't Stop Loving Me!

Also includes many rarities including their 1973 release of Here Comes The Freedom Train and live recordings. In all, 160 recordings!

Features an in-depth biography by noted journalist and Dolly Parton biographer, Alanna Nash.

'?I was truly humbled by the high art and soul of duet singing and it's power to tell the story of the human heart, broken and otherwise, but Porter and Dolly became the gold standard for me and remain so to this day. At a time when the airwaves and ipods spew out bloodless and over-calculated offerings of a once venerable genre, this is the real deal, my friends - country music the way God intended. And if there is a radio station in heaven, Porter and Dolly will always be in heavy rotation. ' - Emmylou Harris, Nashville, January 2014

Porter and Dolly had even more than the playfulness and sexual chemistry of Conway Twitty-Loretta Lynn and the high psychodrama of Tammy Wynette-George Jones. Because they were both great songwriters, they wrote songs that mirrored their lives and brought an uncommon variety to their music. Both of them dressed in high hillbilly glamor - like no one else before or since. Neither of them was afraid to make a splash.

When Porter and Dolly began recording in 1967, Porter was the bigger star and Dolly watched his TV show every week as a fan...

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