Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. No one embodied the promise of America quite like Dolly Parton, in her own life story as well as in her songs.

With Dolly Parton gone, the world is dimmer, duller, and decidedly less musical

Dolly Parton was not merely the Queen of Country, lending her unusual soprano to a record number of hits on the American country chart. More than 100 of them.

She was a songwriter by the grace of God who, in the course of one productive evening, wrote both ’Jolene’ and ’I Will Always Love You’.

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