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Dolly Parton's greatest songs, and the stories behind them

PBS NewsHour · August 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM

Dolly Parton's greatest songs, and the stories behind them

Dolly Parton was more than a musician, actor, author, philanthropist, or theme-park entrepreneur.

Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, occupied a space in our global cultural imagination — a figure of American mythology, someone best described as larger-than-life and then a little bit more.

But from

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