I regret to tell you this chapter leads off with a pretty serious tearjerker, and doesn’t let up much from there. The conceit of “Coat Of Many Colors” is almost too precious, or would be without Dolly’s complete investment. Decades later, “You Were Meant For Me” found similar pathos in painterly details and a protagonist coming to terms with life’s bad beats. All these songs stick to simple, spare arrangements with occasional country touches of organ and banjo, a style that can sparkle with contentment on “Harvest Moon” or seem deathly cold on “Atlantic City.”