In another artist’s hands, a story of poverty as stark as the title track might sound bitter or barbed. Even in the bleakest of scenes, she managed to find beauty-the warmth of the sun flooding a lonely woman’s room (“My Blue Tears”), the look of a mother’s face when she feels like she has nothing left (“If I Lose My Mind”). And in important ways, she was: Few artists have rendered optimism with such clarity and heart. Listen to the bell-clear sweetness of 1971’s Coat of Many Colors and you might mistake Dolly Parton for simple.