HERE she comes again! Following Dolly Parton's mammoth UK tour last year ago the country legend is back with new songs - and a whole new feisty attitude. The singer, whose hits include Here You Come Again and Jolene, has released her new album, Backwoods Barbie, on her own label, Dolly Records. Explains the 62-year-old: ''I put it on my own label because many of the majors really didn't want me because of my age, thinking I was 'over'. "But I felt different about that. I figured the major labels are pretty much a thing of the past anyway, kind of like they thought I was!'' Fans attending Wednesday's show at Birmingham NIA will see that Dolly has also returned to the mainstream country music that made her so successful in the first place. She reveals that when 'New Country' came along she found herself sidelined. ''I recorded a few favourite things; two or three bluegrass CDs, a patriotic CD, but none of that sold very well except out of the trunk of my car! ''But I did get some good critical acclaim so my name did stay in the light, so to speak, just not as bright. ''Then as I watched all the success being enjoyed by other artists with all the new technology and all the different ways of marketing their product I thought, I'm as good as I ever was, if I was any good, so I'm going for it. "Country music is my favourite and I do it best, so I wrote a bunch of songs for the Backwoods Barbie CD. "I went in the studio and brought in the very best musicians Nashville has to offer, including some of my favourite old timers who played on my hit records in the past.'' Dolly's gamble paid off, with Backwoods Barbie becoming the highest debuting CD of her career in the US. "My life is not perfect,'' she admits. "I work hard. I fall down. I get up and I keep going. "I not only believe that tomorrow will be better, but that the next minute or the next hour will be better. "You have to find the good in everything and in everybody, and believe that it is all for a reason. "I wake up every day expecting things to be good. And if they're not, then I set out about trying to get it fixed.'' * Ticket Info DOLLY PARTON Wednesday, July 2: NIA, Birmingham Tickets: £50 - £65, plus booking and transaction fees , from www.theticketfactory. com or 0871 945 6000. | 
