Dolly Parton with Lem Zakharia

12-01-2023 • 1 hr 25 mins

It’s the Dollysode!

This is one of our most frequently requested topics, and it’s our pleasure to finally serve up the gist of Miss Dolly Rebecca Parton’s rise from rags to rhinestones.

They call her the Backwoods Barbie, the Smoky Mountain Songbird, the Dolly Llama. She's probably the #1 most beloved & respected person on the planet, and by the time you’ve finished gistening to this one, we hope you’ll appreciate her even more than you already do. Yeehaw, y’all.

Skip straight to the story: approx 10:03

Jacob shares the story with Lem Zakharia

Hear more from Lem every week on the podcast 'It's A Lot' with Abbie Chatfield https://link.chtbl.com/Jb84IMRs

We give you just the gist, but if you want more, there's this:

LISTEN to the podcast 'Dolly Parton’s America' https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america

READ/LISTEN to Dolly’s autobiographies

Songteller - This one explores her life through the lens of 175 of the songs she’s written https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Dolly-Parton-Songteller-Audiobook/1980072159?

Dream More - This one expands on her graduation speech from 2009 https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Dream-More-Audiobook/B01BCVP1LI?

My Life, and Other Unfinished Business (just be warned, there is a very 1994 description of disordered eating in the second half of the book)

WATCH Dolly’s graduation speech from 2009 at the University of Tennessee. Then watch it again ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOm2lLIOoU

WATCH these docos. This Netflix one 'Dolly Parton: Here I Am' is ace, and Kylie Minogue is in it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11497544/

'Dolly Parton: Queen of Country' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGYnFFMcUOE