"Those Were the Days," released in October 2005 on Sugar Hill / Blue Eye Records (SUG-CD 4007), is a collection of 1960s and '70s folk and pop covers recast in a bluegrass and Americana style — Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Both Sides Now," "Me and Bobby McGee," and Lennon's "Imagine" among them. Produced by Parton, the album features Chris Thile and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek on multiple tracks alongside Norah Jones, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Lee Ann Womack, and Kris Kristofferson. Landing on Sugar Hill situates it squarely within the early-2000s acoustic revival, and the Nickel Creek connection grounds it in the progressive newgrass moment. It is the third and final album of Parton's bluegrass-period collaboration with the label.
Tracklist
- 1 Those Were the Days 5:00
- 2 Blowin’ in the Wind alt version 3:23
- 3 Where Have All the Flowers Gone alt version 3:01
- 4 The Twelfth of Never 3:18
- 5 Where Do the Children Play? 3:25
- 6 Me and Bobby McGee 3:51
- 7 Crimson and Clover 3:40
- 8 The Cruel War 3:43
- 9 Turn, Turn, Turn 3:19
- 10 If I Were a Carpenter 2:56
- 11 Both Sides Now 3:34
- 12 Imagine 3:52