Dolly Parton said she regretted the cover of her 1973 album *Bubbling Over*, calling the photograph of herself “awful”. The design aimed to echo the album’s title by placing her face amid a fountain’s water, but the result looked awkward and poorly assembled.

Parton recalled in her 2020 book *Songteller* that the team repeatedly tried to make the image work, eventually accepting it as “just one of those mistakes”. The article says the cover’s clumsy execution became an affectionate oddity within her flamboyant image, and that she soon followed it with *Jolene* in 1974, whose photographer Les Leverett won a Billboard award for Best Country Music Album Cover.