‘Jolene’ to ‘I Will Always Love You’: Dolly Parton’s greatest songs, and the stories behind them |
Dolly Parton was more than a musician, actor, author, philanthropist, or theme-park entrepreneur. Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, occupied a space in our global cultural imagination – a figure of American mythology, someone best described as larger-than-life and then a little bit more. But from the very beginning, at the heart of everything…