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The Billboard Q & A: Dolly Parton-April 21,2008
http://billboard.com/bbcom/feature/article...t_id=1003791978

**This is a great interview by the way-Kenny**


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This post has been edited by Kenny on Feb 28 2009, 06:32 AM

VERY NICE PIC OF MS. DOLLY!!!!! Very nice article/interview, too!! - Lord, she sounds like she's fixin to be a BUSY GAL with all she's wantin to accomplish!!
I say, "GO DOLLY!!!"

Yeppers she always seems to have somethin goin on and she usually gets her done!

Time Out Chicago / Issue 166 : May 1–7, 2008

All dolled up
Dolly Parton talks about the look—and the talent beneath it.
By Novid Parsi

After a string of acclaimed bluegrass records, Dolly Parton’s newest, Backwoods Barbie, marks her first mainstream-country album in 17 years. The title track comes from the stage musical 9 to 5, for which Parton has written the songs; set to have its pre-Broadway premiere in L.A. this fall, it’s based, of course, on the 1980 movie that helped turn Parton from country star to cultural icon. After a back injury postponed her original tour dates (“I’m okay now,” she says with her trademark lilt), Parton called in advance of her Chicago shows.

Time Out Chicago: Why’d you stay away from mainstream country for so long?
Dolly Parton:I didn’t stay away from it, it stayed away from me. With the way country has been the last several years, they dropped a lot of the older artists from the big labels, and so I’ve been doing a lot of albums on my own labels. But I thought, Well, I’ll just do what sounds to me like up-to-date country and see if I still can’t get some chart records.

TOC: What’d those major labels tell you?
Dolly Parton:They just said, “You’re too old.”

TOC: Just flat-out said it?
Dolly Parton:Or something like that. It’s like, “You’re not of the age with what’s happening with country.” But I had had so many hit records on my own and duet records with Porter Wagoner for years, so I didn’t begrudge it. I understood making way for new people. But I never gave up.

TOC: Loretta Lynn successfully teamed up with White Stripes a few years ago. Dolly Parton:Would you ever pair up with a younger rock group like that?
That was a great album and I was proud of her for doing that. I get asked to do that all the time, but I just am not willing to do that. After I’m dead and gone, I want my records to be more like, this is what Dolly was thinking, rather than just someone using me to enhance something they’re doing.

TOC: Your career took off when you sang with Wagoner in the ’60s and ’70s. Why’d you break from him?
Dolly Parton:I had always intended to be my own star, not just a girl singer in someone else’s group. I just told him, I said, “Now, I want to do my own thing my own way.” And so we just argued and fought over that a lot. He was stubborn, I was stubborn, and so I just said, “I’m going.” And I wrote the song “I Will Always Love You” to tell him I would always love him and appreciate him.

TOC: That’s still often thought of as Whitney Houston’s song—do you think you’ve been adequately recognized as a songwriter?
Dolly Parton:She took that little simple song and turned it into something spectacular. It was only after she did that people started to realize I was a serious writer. And a lot of people did pay attention with songs like “9 to 5” and “Jolene.” So it’s hard to say ’cause I’ve always had such an overexaggerated look, phony looking and big tits, big hair, big personality. A lot of people can’t get past that.

TOC: On your new album you sing, “I’ve always been misunderstood because of how I look.” How much has that misunderstanding been of your own making?
Dolly Parton:It’s all been of my own making. I’m not a natural beauty, and as a poor country girl, you long to be beautiful. You don’t know style, you don’t have taste, so you tend to go on the more gaudy side. But that’s how I still feel most comfortable. And I know a lot of people look at me and think, Well, you just look like a whore. I know that I’m not, but it’s how I look. But it’s the way I choose to look.

TOC: Do you think that look encouraged people to take you less seriously?
Dolly Parton:Yes, absolutely. But I figured if my work was good it would stand on its own, and I was gonna have some fun doing it.

TOC: You seem really comfortable with your gay fans. On your live-concert CD, Live and Well, you say the drag queens in the audience look more like you than you do.
Dolly Parton:Oh, they do sometimes. I have a huge gay following, and I love ’em. In fact, I’m gonna do a dance record, and one of my favorite ones I ever wrote is called “Just a Wee Bit Gay.” It is so funny and so cute, and my gay fans are gonna love me for it.

TOC: The Tennessee mountains aren’t exactly a haven for sexual outsiders. Where do your views on sexuality come from?
Dolly Parton:Well, that comes from me being an oddball myself and people persecuting me for being who I was. I used to get my ass whipped all the time for wearing makeup or wearing my clothes too tight.

TOC: As a kid?
Dolly Parton:As a child, yeah, in a religious family. But I just was different. I think that everybody belongs to God and to themselves, and it’s a sin not to be who you are.
Dolly Parton plays the Chicago Theatre May 8 and 9.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/mu...6/all-dolled-up

Backwoods Barbie
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid60599.aspx

Thanks Vicki for that Dolly pic,,Love it!

YOU be very welcome............LOVE her in pink!

**Thanks Vicki**

MUSIC REVIEW
Dolly delivers travelogue of a show
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | May 6, 2008

There isn't a package in popular music quite as confused as the shrewd country bumpkin, liberated dumb blonde, and gifted theme-park operator named Dolly Parton. Those signature contradictions have fueled the country star's image and music for four decades, and at 62 - unreal-looking and pristine-sounding - Parton shows no signs of loosening her grip.

"I might look artificial, but where it counts I'm real," she sang last night at the Opera House. The song was "Backwoods Barbie," the autobiographical title track from her new album, and the lyric captured the essence of a show that managed the miraculous task of being cloyingly polished and sincerely heartfelt all at once.

For more than two hours (including an intermission) Parton sang and chattered and joked without rest. She delivered one-liners about her breasts and her hillbilly roots and the monthly mood swings we can expect if we put a woman in the White House, and songs that ran the gamut from classic country to glossy pop. A tight, dreary 11-piece band backed her, an ensemble so colorless one was hard-pressed to pick out a pedal steel or fiddle in the anonymous wash. This was the Dolly Parton show, and it felt vaguely like a travelogue, with vividly nostalgic narrative between songs and a set list that wasn't explicitly chronological, but frontloaded with early gems and frosted with a hit parade.

Parton's voice still flutters and skitters, pure as water. She strummed an autoharp (white and bejeweled like her dulcimer, piano, electric guitar, and dress) during "Coat of Many Colors," and lassoed the evergreen pain of a long-gone betrayal on "Jolene." "Backwoods Barbie" is Parton's first album of country music in 20 years, and she worked several of the strongest new tunes in where they belonged, during the show's rootsy first half.

But Parton saved the album's radio-ready first single, a platitude-filled anthem called "Better Get To Livin'," for the show's back end, where kitsch and crossover tunes ruled.

That's when the singer, now in skin-hugging shocking pink satin, answered questions about plastic surgery and her husband submitted by radio-station listeners.

She devoted an inexplicably lengthy stretch to a medley of her favorite hits from the '50s and '60s, and then launched into a crowd-pleasing run through her own chart-topping catalog: "Here You Come Again," "Islands in the Stream," "9 to 5," and "I Will Always Love You."

Love or hate Parton's shift from understated country tunesmith to mainstream pop star, she is the sum of her parts - the God-given and the shamelessly fabricated - and all were on proud display on stage. It was a strange, and sometimes sad, blend: equal parts inspired self-acceptance and desperate self-invention.

Joan Anderman can be reached at anderman@globe.com. For more on music visit boston.com/ae/music/blog.



© Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/20...ogue_of_a_show/

CLICK LINK ABOVE FOR A GREAT DOLLY PIC!^^^

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/9408...dolly09.article

Thanks for this, Kenny! I read everything that ain't tied down on Dolly!!
She is just really BRILLIANT in so many ways.

May 14, 2008

Shock jock Stern ‘hurts, humiliates’ Dolly Parton

By Kristin Whittlesey
All the Rage editor

Dolly Parton is “shocked, hurt and humiliated” at a segment that aired last week on shock jock Howard Stern’s satellite radio show.

In the segment, sound clips from one of Parton’s audio books were manipulated and re-edited to make it appear the singer was making racist and sexually explicit remarks about Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Carson and others.

We’re not talking mildly upsetting, either. This stuff is filthy. So nasty that we can't even paraphrase it for you.

“I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me,” Parton said in a statement today. “In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing. Please accept my apology for them and certainly know I had nothing to do with this.”

She concluded: “If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it’s going to be over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this.”

The “audio book” tactic is an ongoing feature of The Howard Stern Show. Star Trek actor George Takei has been a frequent target.

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...GfTz8GvzMLtY%3D

DOLLY GONNA TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS HERE WITH MR. STERN..... : GO GIT HIM, MS. DOLLY!!!

Dolly,,all the way from Turkey of all places,lol...Anything ya wanna know came from Turkey!!
http://www.guncel-haber.com/2122048/haber_...azge%C3%A7emiy/

**I love this article in this mornings paper by Gail Kerr-Kenny**

May 18, 2008

Hey Stern, lay off our girl Dolly

By GAIL KERR

What do Dolly Parton and Howard Stern have in common?

Nothing. She is class. He's an ass.

Which is why Dolly's home state has a message for that man: Leave our home girl alone.

This is the woman who brought Tennessee's children free books from the Imagination Library. She's boosted Tennessee's tourism through one of the state's top attractions, Dollywood. And that's Dolly looking cute in her orange construction vest on the TV public service ads about roadwork on our highways.

Dolly Parton started out as Porter Wagoner's "girl singer," whose obvious physical assets matched her vocal talent. As her star rose in country music and Hollywood, she's always been self-deprecating about the size of her chest and her affection for all things over-the-top: makeup, high heels, blond wigs, plastic surgery.

Her business savvy, wit, and enormous talent have made her a beloved local icon. She is our Oprah. She is a caricature, certainly, but one with character. She is Tennessee's sweetie.

Which makes what Stern's foul-mouthed crew did to her so offensive. They took her audio book, and spliced and diced it so it sounds like disgusting phrases are coming out of her mouth. This stuff is so bad, it's impossible to paraphrase it. Suffice to say it's racist, sexual and degrading. It even refers to pedophilia — now there's a funny topic.

Dolly's humor is wink-wink bawdy. This is drop-your-jaw barnyard.

Dolly apologizes

In response, Dolly came out with this statement, which has made the national media rounds:

"I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life. I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me. In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing. Please accept my apology for them and certainly know I had nothing to do with this. If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it's going to come over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this."

If there's an apology to be made, it should come from him, not her. Stern is known as a "shock jock," which seems a rather mild way to put it. Free speech is just that, and he has a large fan base. More power to them — it would take a psychologist, not a newspaper columnist, to figure out why that sort of thing tickles their fancy.

But going after Dolly Parton? Why? She's done nothing on God's earth but good.

Some will argue if you don't want to hear it, don't listen to Howard Stern. Problem is, the Internet is a big playground, and the fake tape is now all over the place. I found it in five seconds. So will your teenagers. Undoubtedly, some idiots will believe it's true.

Which is why I hope she sues him. Not for the money. She doesn't need his. But to make it clear what her Tennessee friends already know: Dolly's class trumps Howard Stern's filth.

And that means the joke's on you, Howie.

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...ONTPAGECAROUSEL

GOOD LORD! TURKEY DOES TELL IT ALL, DON'T SHE!!? DON'T LEAVE OUT MUCH O' NUTHIN!!
REALLY GREAT ARTICLE, THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARIN, KENNY.....ya went far for that one!

Two Award-Winning Shows Highlight Dollywood’s 2008 Live Entertainment
General Press Releases May 28th, 2008

A 30-foot-wide video screen above the stage allows hosts from GAC’s most popular shows to introduce each show segment and interact with the The Great American Country Show’s performers. Various GAC cable programs define the performance segments of The Great American Country Show, including GAC’s Top Twenty hosted by Nan Kelley; Edge of Country hosted by Kylie Harris; The Year hosted by Mark Wills; and Master Series host Bill Cody.

Each performance of The Great American Country Show is highlighted by a special 10-minute guest appearance by a country artist. This year’s lineup includes Jim Ed Brown (May 16-19), Jimmy Fortune (June 2-7), Jan Howard (June 10-14), Paulette Carlson (June 24-28), Baillie & the Boys (June 30-July 5), Marty Raybon (July 8-12), Tammy Cochran (July 22-26), Linda Davis (July 28–Aug. 2), Pirates of the Mississippi (Aug. 5-9), Mel McDaniel (Aug. 11-16), Jean Shepard (Aug. 18, 20 & 22-25), Mandy Barnett (Aug. 27-Sept. 3), John Berry (Sept. 5-10), Tammy Cochran (Sept. 19-24), and T. Graham Brown (Oct. 17-22 & 24-25).

Media: Contact Dollywood Public Relations Manager Pete Owens at 865-428-9486 or powens {at} dollywood(.)com for B-roll, photography and more information. Check the Dollywood Press Room at www.Dollywood.com/PR/Press.asp or for updates and new images.

Click link below for more:

http://press-releases.techwhack.com/20181-dollywood

Tour Collection, The (CD)
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Number of Discs: 4
Click link below for track lists:
http://www.tower.com/details/details.cfm?wapi=112126025

Dolly Parton - in her own words

Country legend Dolly Parton brings her live show to Birmingham’s NIA on July 2. We look back at her career - in her own words.

Dolly on her appearance: “I’m a little bitty person. It’s just my boobs and hair that are so big.”

Dolly on her female ideals: “My look came from a very serious place: a country girl’s idea of glamour. I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ’sexy’, even before I knew what the word was. I would see pictures of women in magazines, what they called the town tramp, but seriously I thought they were beautiful.”

Dolly on keeping her image: “I don’t have great hair so I love piling on the wigs. I’m short so I wear tall shoes. I have no taste and no style and nobody cares. I love it.”

Dolly on rumours surrounding her personal life: “If I ain’t done it, I’m capable of it or I just ain’t got round to doing it yet.”

Dolly on faith: “Everybody has their own idea of God and God is just there for all of us. I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame. I just feel that God is my friend, my co-producer, my partner.”

Dolly on her stage persona: “I always say people don’t pay to see me be me, they pay to see me be them. They think, ‘I would love to have the nerve to dress like her or behave as outrageously.’ I’ll probably wind up looking this way in my coffin.”

Dolly on her musical legacy: “I know I’m serious about my work, and if it doesn’t happen in my lifetime, if the stuff is worth keeping, it’ll last long after I’m gone.”

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/07/01/d...er-own-words-2/

CLICK LINK ABOVE FOR VIDEO:^^

**This is,I think from the UK..Dolly's literacy program is not a ''scheme'',lol,just the way they talk-Kenny**

Parton Sets Up U.K. Office To Deal With Book Demand

Country star Dolly Parton has been forced to set up a U.K. office in a bid to cope with the demand for free books from her children's literacy scheme.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Country star Dolly Parton has been forced to set up a U.K. office in a bid to cope with the demand for free books from her children's literacy scheme.

The 61-year-old launched the pre-school literacy campaign in 2006, aiming to send every child under five a free book each month. It now runs in 45 U.S. states, and she has since expanded her plans to include the U.K.

But Parton has been shocked by the demand from people in Britain and has now opened up a U.K. branch in order to deal with all of the extra orders.

She says, "With this exchange rate, if I had to keep shipping money from Tennessee to the U.K., I would have to change the name of Dollywood to Dollywas."

http://www.wdrm.com

Gotta just love Ms. Dolly to pieces!!!

Wonderful work Ms. Dolly is doin with this literacy program!

London: US country music singer Dolly Parton performs onstage in London as part of her ‘Backwoods Barbie’ world tour, on July 5, 2008. The tour will see her promoting her self-released album with concerts across the world. afp

Vote Dolly Parton for president
Now here's a presidential candidate who could unite the nation: Dolly Parton.

"Sometimes people tell me I should go into politics, but I'm not interested," Dolly said in The New York Post. We've got enough boobs in the White House. People would ask about foreign affairs, and I'd say, 'What's wrong with American men?' Then they'd ask about global warming, and I'd say 'When my globes get warm, I just take off my sweater!' "

The only fighting would come among the men clamoring to join her cabinet.

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...T0501/807160404

**I LOVE IT,WHAT CAN YA SAY,YOU GOTTA LOVE DOLLY,SHE JUST SAYS WHAT SHE'S THINKIN,LIKE LORETTA -Kenny**

Dolly does tell it like it is!!
I think she'd do fine as President.....I HEAR SHE IS QUITE A PATRIOTIC GAL!!!!