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Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Musician · b. 1946 · Pittman Center, Tennessee · Also a recording artist

Dolly Parton is one of the most successful and celebrated artists in country music history, an 11-time Grammy winner and Country Music Hall of Famer whose late-1990s and early-2000s "bluegrass trilogy" on Sugar Hill brought a generation-defining country songwriter back to her Smoky Mountain musical roots.

  • Born January 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin on the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Sevier County, Tennessee; took up guitar, banjo, autoharp, and songwriting as a child.
  • Joined the cast of The Porter Wagoner Show in 1967 and stayed until 1974; wrote and recorded "Jolene" (1973) and "I Will Always Love You" (1974) during this period.
  • Released the bluegrass trilogy on Sugar Hill: The Grass Is Blue (1999, Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album), Little Sparrow (2001), and Halos & Horns (2002), produced by Steve Buckingham with backing musicians Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Alison Krauss, and Rhonda Vincent.
  • Recorded the multi-platinum Trio (1987) and Trio II (1999) with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, both of which won Grammy awards.
  • Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022.
  • Took the Grascals onto the road as her opening act and bluegrass touring band starting in 2004; her cover-quote on the band's debut called it "one of the greatest albums I've ever heard."
  • Released her 49th solo studio album Rockstar in November 2023, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 (her highest-charting solo studio album to date).
  • Has written more than 3,000 songs across the country, pop, and bluegrass canon, including the standard "I Will Always Love You" later made an international pop hit by Whitney Houston's 1992 cover.

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