Day: September 13, 2026

The great Dolly Parton has passed. I hope I’m not the first one to break the news to you. She was clearly a unique person, full of joy and love. She was an incredibly talented songwriter. I’m sure everybody knows her story by now. She left her hometown in Tennessee at 18 and moved to Nashville the day after she graduated from high school. There are probably ten thousand similar stories of youngsters who dream of stardom, move to Nashville, and then fail. Dolly Parton did not fail. She had a string of country music hits, then crossed over to the