Feb. 3: Jimmy Carter Beats Dolly For Grammy Dolly on Sunday lost the Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for the audio book of Behind The Seams: My Life In Rhinestones to the late former President Jimmy Carter for a collection of Sunday School lessons. Other nominees were The Beatles, George Clinton, and Barbra Steisand. The win marked Carter's fourth Grammy for spoken word recording. It marked Dolly's first nomination in the category, expanding her number of genres to 10. However, Beyonce's first-time nominations in the country and Americana genres took her out of a tie with Dolly for the female artist with the most nominations in different genres to 11. Their previous three-way-tie-holder Janet Jackson fell to third place with nine genres. Beyonce was the night's big winner, with her album Cowboy Carter, on which Dolly provides two voice-overs plus wrote the classic "Jolene" which is covered on the project, won Album of the Year as well as Country Album of the Year. In addition, she won Country Duo/Group Performance with Dolly's goddaughter Miley Cyrus for "II Most Wanted."
Dolly Musical, Dolly U Announced At Belmont
Dolly on Tuesday officially announced the dates and details of what she had previously revealed months ago: that her bio-musical Dolly: An Original Musical will debut in Nashville for a test run this summer prior to next year's move to Broadway. In an appearance at Belmont University here or in the media player above, she revealed tickets went on sale Tuesday for the four-week engagement which includes a world premiere preview Friday, July 18, continuing through Aug. 7, with the official opening night occurring Aug. 8. The run ends Aug. 17. She said her favorite song from the show was "I Wouldn't Be Here If You Hadn't Been There," about those who elevated her to where she is today and which she said she would be releasing as a single, and director Bartlett Sher said his was "God, Sex, and Music," which he said encapsulated Dolly herself and her contradictions. The show also served as the first project for Dolly U, a new partnership Dolly has created with Belmont to provide immersive educational experiences for students with the performing arts, working on all aspects of production. Tickets are available here. The show is still casting, with 126 video submission slots for members of the Actors Equity union eligible to submit to casting directors Carrie Gardner and Jason Thinger, by Feb. 14 for the three Dollys, Porter Wagoner, Carl Dean/Johnny Cash, young Judy Ogle, adult Judy, and Sandy Gallin.
'DNA' Debuts Overseas Dolly Parton & Family: Smoky Mountain DNA -- Family, Faith & Fables must have shipped all of its U.K. sales last week because it debuted on the British charts much higher than it did in the U.S. The collection pops in at No. 100 overall album sales (includes downloads), No, 94 physical album sales, No. 22 Americana albums and No. 1 U.K. country compilation albums. Stateside, on the other hand, the album never sold enough in one week to appear on any all-genre sales charts and only appeared on the bluegrass albums list, one that only takes sales of a few hundred copies to enter the top 10. Elsewhere in Britain, Post Malone's country album F 1 Trillion, featuring a Dolly duet, slips three to No. 6 country albums while Beyonce's Cowboy Carterloses two to No. 7 U.K. country albums and five to No. 9 Americana albums. On the country compilation albums list, in addition to Dolly's family album, Very Best Of Dolly Parton Vol. 1 drops two to No. 5 and Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection inches down one to No. 6, while Original Album Series by Linda Ronstadt falls back out of the top 20, down from No. 20.
Down Under, Post Malone's F 1 Trillion loses two to No. 7 country, while Cowboy Carter slips three to No. 31 Australian country albums. Malone's drops out of the top 50 Australian pop albums, down from No. 49.
In the U.S., Post Malone's F 1 Trillion drops two to No. 18 Top 200 albums on the Feb. 2 Billboard charts released Tuesday, remaining steady at No. 3 country albums, losing one to No. 12 Canadian albums, and re-entering the top 50 current albums list at No. 49. Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, loses 21 to No. 179 Top 200 albums, holding steady at No. 30 country albums, and gaining one to No. 12 Americana/folk albums.
