Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton explains on Apple Music Country's “The Kelleigh Bannen Show” how she keeps certain parts of her life, including husband Carl Dean, private.

It's a sacred place that just is mine and God’s, and I've known how to do that because I think God has directed that," she said. "I’ve known how to keep my husband private. And I think my mama told me when I was young, ‘Always keep something back for you.

Host Dolly Parton opened the Academy of Country Music Awards on Monday night by dedicating the show to the people of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. “I don't want to get political, I'd rather pass a kidney stone than do that,” Parton said from the ...

At Monday's ACM Awards, Kelly Clarkson delivered a stunning performance as a tribute to a country music legend and host for the award show, Dolly Parton.

"One word: DOLLY," she wrote on Instagram alongside a short clip. Clarkson, 39, first broke the exciting news that she was paying tribute to Parton during an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show last month, saying, "I love her so much." At Monday's 2022 ACM Awards, Clarkson delivered a stunning performance of "I Will Always Love You" as a tribute to country music legend and host for the award show, Dolly Parton.

The Southern fiction thriller was released just a few days after its companion album of the same name came out on Friday.

Last week, Parton released an accompanying book soundtrack — because, of course she did — that features a dozen new songs. And, sure, "thriller novelist" might ...

"I don't ever plan to retire," Parton said. That'll have a lot to do with a lot of people." "I said Dolly and I [met] with no lawyers, no agents," Patterson said, "but when you get out to Hollywood, there's a lot of lawyers and a lot of agents. "I wanted it to be true to the real stories and things that do happen," Parton said. But I never plan to retire." For the novel, Parton wrote lyrics to songs that appear on page (the book features a songbook crediting characters to accompanying tunes). In real-life Nashville, Parton brought her words to the studio. And a book may not be the only way to experience AnnieLee's story. "When he told me he wanted to write something about Nashville, I thought, 'Well, how hard can that be?'" Parton said. "For her to come from the hills of Tennessee — with all the talent she had — but still to make it, the odds were huge that she wouldn't. When I first came from upstate New York to New York [City], same thing: No way am I going to get to be a best-selling author. "I always thought I'd write a novel, or a mystery, at some point in my life," Parton told The Tennessean, "because I do love to tell stories. Parton continued, "The young one? In turn, Patterson — who before Parton worked on a pair of books with former U.S. President Bill Clinton — enlisted a co-author he described as fair, funny and down-to-earth.

Here's what Dolly Parton said about the war in Ukraine at the beginning of the 57th ACM awards.

"I'm so thankful that Dolly said what she said because I was feeling a little bit strange," Ramsey said. In her opening monologue, Parton said: "I do want us before we start all our fun to take a serious moment. After Old Dominion's fifth consecutive Group of the Year win, band frontman Matthew Ramsey echoed Parton's sentiment in an acceptance speech.