April 29: Jennifer Aniston Relaunching '9 To 5' Remake For Disney/Fox News broke last week that the reboot or sequel to Dolly's film debut, 9 To 5, is back on again. Jennifer Aniston's production company has the project in development for Disney's 20th Century Studios with Diablo Cody writing the script. No word on whether any of the original film is involved or details on the plot. A sequel had been greenlit by 20th Century several years ago with planned appearances by all three female leads from the original production and it survived the first two rounds of cuts after Disney's 2019 acquisition of the studio but was shelved in the third round of project cuts. Read more on the new version from Varietyhere.
U.S. Sales, U.K. Chart, Aussie Chart Updates Preliminary sales data projects Beyonce's Cowboy Carter will dip another spot in its fourth chart week to No. 3 on the U.S. Top 200 albums list this week, Hits Daily Double indicated. Their numbers estimate the album had 66,000 unit credits for the week (11,000 sold, 1,000 track download equivalents, and 54,000 from streaming).
Across the pond, Beyonce inches down one to No. 3 all-genre albums, 11 to No. 17 Scottish albums, off the vinyl albums chart (down from No. 11), two to No. 3 streaming albums, and eight to No. 14 physical sales, but it rises 27 to No. 8 download albums, and 24 to No. 14 album sales, while remaining steady at No. 1 country and Americana albums. "Jolene" in its fourth week loses 12 to No. 46 on the all-genre singles chart and 45 to No. 80 downloads, falling off streaming (down from No. 53), audio streaming (down from No. 51), and singles sales (down from No. 38).
Dolly Wine May Be Coming: Report British tabloid The Sun reports Dolly has registered trademarks in the U.S. and U.K. for wine production under her brand, indicating new Dolly wine may soon hit markets. Read more here.
New Dolly Interview With 'Amusement Today' Amusement Today last week published a new interview with Dolly for its Women of Influence issue. Check it out here.
'Good Housekeeping' Picks Best Dolly Presents Good Housekeeping last week released a list of the 20 best Dolly gifts of this year for fans, ranking at No. 2 the Little Golden Book that your webmaster helped create. See the full list here.
Dolly Food Line Introduces Frozen Mac & Cheese Duncan Hines last week revealed its next Dolly product hitting grocery shelves: frozen macaroni and cheese. That product has been added to its Baking With Dolly page, with additional products expected to be added soon.
'Not Dolly' Heading To Night Of 1,000 Dollys Knoxville Professional Dolly impersonator Vancie Vega has revealed she will return to Knoxville with her "Not Dolly Show" for the annual Night of 1,000 Dollys party at Club XYZ as part of this year's Dolly-centered community Rhinestone Fest June 7 and 8 with 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. shows each night.
April 24: 'Powerful Women' Slips On Charts Dolly and Pitbull's collaboration "Powerful Women" remains on the rap digital singles sales chart in the April 27 Billboard charts released Tuesday, slipping five to No. 7 for a fifth chart week on the tally, but it falls off the all-genre digital sales chart, down from No. 8. Elsewhere on the charts, her Beyonce collaboration "Tyrant" falls off the Hot 100, down from No. 88 in its second week; country streaming songs list, down from No. 23; R&B/Hip-Hop songs, down from No. 38; R&B streaming songs, down from No. 6; and R&B digital sales, down from No. 10. The track dips 13 to No. 33 country singles and one to No. 6 Hot R&B Songs. Beyonce's Cowboy Carter loses one to No. 2 in its third week on the top 200 albums, falling two to No. 3 streaming albums and No. 4 Canadian albums, gaining three to No. 2 vinyl albums, and recapturing the No. 1 spot by moving up two on current album sales and top album sales. The set holds steady at No. 1 country albums and Americana/folk albums. Her cover of "Jolene" declines another 37 places to No. 88 all-genre Hot 100 and nine spots to No. 19 country singles but falls off streaming songs, down from No. 42; digital song sales, down from No. 15; Canadian Hot 100, down from No. 61; country streaming, down from No. 9; and country digital sales, down from No. 7. Dolly's Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection falls back off the top 50 country albums, down from No. 44, while "Lookin' For You" with Zach Williams falls off the Hot Christian Song chart, down from No. 46 in its fifth week, and it earns a second week on the Christian airplay chart holding steady at No. 39.
Win A Piece Of Dolly's Dress Dolly has announced a new contest with publisher Penguin Random House to give away 25 packages that include a copy of her most recent New York Times Best Seller Behind The Seams: My Life In Rhinestones, a piece of fabric from the butterfly dress she wears on the back cover, and a card from her. Enter here!
'Steel Magnolias' 4K Edition Released Sony's 35th anniversary edition of Steel Magnolias, available for the first time ever in 4K Ultra-HD, hit stores Tuesday. Get yours here!
April 22: Beyonce No. 2 U.S., U.K., No. 9 Aussie This Week Beyonce's Cowboy Carter will lose the top spot and slip to No. 2 for its third week on the U.S. charts, Billboard confirmed Sunday. The magazine reported the set was credited with 98,000 units (about 28,000 sales, 1,000 track equivalent downloads, and 69,000 streaming unit credits).
Down Under, Cowboy Carter falls eight to No. 9 after its first two weeks were at No. 1 on the Australian all-genre albums chart, while it remains No. 1 for a third week on the Aussie country albums chart, where Dolly's own Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection dips 15 to No. 36 country albums.
Across the pond, the album remains steady at No. 2 all-genre albums after debuting at No. 1 its first week and regains 11 to No. 6 Scottish albums, seven to No. 11 vinyl albums, and 11 to No. 6 physical sales but loses 30 to No. 35 download albums, and 26 to No. 38 album sales, while remaining steady at No. 1 country, streaming, and Americana albums. "Jolene" in its third week loses 18 to No. 34 on the all-genre singles chart, 32 to No. 53 streaming songs, 30 to No. 51 audio streaming, 18 to No. 38 singles sales, and 30 to No. 35 downloads.
Elsewhere on the British charts, Dolly's Rockstar: Deluxe falls off the 40-position U.K. Americana albums chart, down from No. 40 in its 21st week, while Very Best Of Dolly Parton Vol. 1 remains steady at No. 1 on the British country compilations albums chart as The Complete Trio Collection Deluxe holds steady at No. 17, Dolly's Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection slips one to No. 4, and the Original Album Series sees Emmylou Harris' first volume fall one to No. 16 and Linda Ronstadt's rise five to No. 11. Dolly and Pittbull's "Powerful Women" slides 50 on the U.K. singles sales chart to No. 88 and 48 on the downloads chart to No. 83.
Dolly Will Schedule Missouri Library Visit: Report Thanks to taking Dolly's Imagination Library early literacy project statewide, Missouri is working to schedule a visit from Dolly to the state to congratulate program leaders, MissouriNet reports here.
Could Netflix Cowboys Cheerleaders Show Feature Dolly? Netflix announced last week it will soon debut a new series America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, which will follow the squad from its selection for the 2023-24 season through their final game. Because that time period includes Dolly's Thanksgiving Day halftime show that broke the Internet, it's assumed that rehearsal footage and/or performance footage from her show will likely be included.
Campbell Duets Album With Dolly Track Released The Glen Campbell estate on Friday released his tribute album re-imagining a decade-old record as duets recorded after his passing: Glen Campbell Duets: Ghost On The Canvas Sessions. Dolly performs "A Better Place" with him. Stream the duet here, watch a lyric video in the media player below, or download it here.
Linda Perry Doc With Dolly Coming Producer Linda Perry, who worked with Dolly on the Dumplin' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Dolly's Rockstar album, will debut a documentary about her life and career, Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, in which Dolly is interviewed and footage of them working together is also included, according to the trailer that dropped here or in the media player below. The film premieres in June at the Tribecca Film Festival.
April 17: 'Powerful Women' Makes Top-Selling Singles Of Week Thanks to a viral video, Dolly and Pittbull's "Powerful Women" surges this week on the April 20 Billboard charts released Tuesday. The track debuts at No. 8 on the all-genre digital sales chart and re-enters the rap digital song sales chart at a new peak of No. 2. Elsewhere on the charts, her Beyonce collaboration "Tyrant" in its second week falls 44 spots to No. 88 on the Hot 100, eight to No. 20 country singles, nine to No. 23 country streaming songs, off the country digital sales chart (down from No. 12), 20 to No. 38 R&B/Hip-Hop songs, three to No. 6 R&B streaming songs, eight to No. 10 R&B digital sales, steady at No. 5 Hot R&B Songs but off the streaming R&B/Hip-Hop songs (down from No. 15), digital R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (down from No. 5), all-genre streaming songs (down from No. 37) and Canadian Hot 100 (down from No. 71). Beyonce's Cowboy Carter remains No. 1 top 200 albums, No. 1 streaming albums, No. 1 Americana/folk albums, and No. 1 country albums, slipping one to No. 2 Canadian albums and two to No. 3 current album sales and top album sales. Her cover of "Jolene" tumbles 44 spots to No. 51 all-genre Hot 100, 37 to No. 42 streaming songs, 13 to No. 15 digital song sales, 42 to No. 61 Canadian Hot 100, seven spots to No. 10 country singles, six to No. 9 country straming, and five to No. 7 country digital sales. Dolly falls back off the Artist 100, down from No. 94, while her Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection holds steady at No. 44 on the country albums chart, and "Lookin' For You" with Zach Williams earns a fifth week on the Hot Christian Song chart, losing five to No. 46, but it debuts on the Christian airplay chart at No. 39.
April 15: Beyonce Album With Dolly Gets Second No. 1 Week Beyonce's Cowboy Carter will get its second week at No. 1 on the U.S. charts, Billboard confirmed Sunday. The magazine reported the set was credited with 125,500 units (20,500 sales, 2,000 track-equivalent-albums, and 103,000 streaming-equivalent-units for 133 million streams). This compared to the projections from Hits Daily Double of the same sales and TEA units but had about 5,000 more streaming units than Billboard.
Down Under, Cowboy Carter also gets a second week at No. 1 on both the Australian all-genre albums chart and country albums chart, while her cover of Dolly's "Jolene" falls off the Australian top 50 singles chart, down from one week at No. 24. Also on the Australian charts, Dolly's own Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection loses six to No. 21 country albums.
Across the pond, the album dips one to No. 2 all-genre albums, 16 to No. 17 Scottish albums, four to No. 5 download albums, 11 to No. 12 album sales, 16 to No,. 17 physical sales, country albums, and 17 to No. 18 vinyl albums, while remaining steady at No. 1 country, streaming, and Americana albums. "Jolene" in its second week loses nine to No. 16 on the all-genre singles chart, 12 to No. 21 streaming songs, 12 to No. 21 audio streaming, 15 to No. 20 singles sales, and 13 to No. 5 downloads, while falling off the video streaming chart, down from No. 10,
Elsewhere on the British charts, Dolly's Rockstar: Deluxe slides 12 places to No. 40 in its 21st week on the U.K. Americana albums charts while Very Best Of Dolly Parton Vol. 1 remains steady at No. 1 on the British country compilations albums chart as The Complete Trio Collection Deluxe loses five to No. 17, Dolly's Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection gains three to No. 3, and the Original Album Series sees Emmylou Harris' first volume fall two to No. 15 and Linda Ronstadt's rise three to No. 16. Dolly and Pittbull's "Powerful Women" re-enters the U.K. singles sales chart at No. 38 and downloads chart at No. 35.
Several media outlets last week noted that Dolly's inclusion on the credits to "Tyrant" made her just the third female artist to have charted on the Hot 100 across five separate decades (the '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, and '20s), joining Cher and Madonna as the only other two.
And for those who were unaware, the release brought to some attention a previous 1974 cover of "Jolene" with an R&B-influenced arrangement by a Black female artist where she flipped the lyrics slightly to warn "Jolene" (whom she made blonde) to stay away from her man. Candi Staton's cover was shelved, likely due to her switching labels shortly after recording it, and didn't see release until it was included in a 2011 release of her entire masters at Fame Records: Evidence: The Complete Fame Records Masters. Learn more from Qhere. Listen to the track at YouTube here or in the media player below, order the CD here and download here
'Billy The Kid' Book Gets Holiday Sequel Dolly announced last week she will be releasing a sequel to her children's book about her goddog, Billy. Dolly Parton's Billy The Kid Comes Home For Christmas hits shelves from Penguin Young Readers Oct. 1 and is based on her 2009 Christmas song "Comin' Home For Christmas." In a press release, Dolly said: ""I always love celebrating Christmas with my family and of course my god-dog Billy. Since he's a big star now, he deserves his own holiday special! Using my 'Comin' Home for Christmas' lyrics, I wanted to tell a story about the importance of family and friends, especially during the holidays. I hope this is a book families will be excited to read every year for Christmas." Promotional materials described the project as: "Featuring Dolly's beloved god-dog and inspired by her song 'Comin' Home for Christmas', this hilarious and heart-warming tale about the true meaning of Christmas follows Billy the Kid, a French bulldog who has everything he could ever want: a place in Nashville, a great band, and even a cross-country tour. But when Billy's band is scheduled to perform at Barkafeller Center on Christmas Day, he must decide what matters to him most: fame or family?" Reserve your copy of the book here, Kindle version here, and audio book here (although the audio book narrator has not been announced yet, the first book in the series was read by Dolly herself).
Dolly Interviewed About Petty Tribute Tom Petty's estate shared an interview last week with Dolly about her recording the song and video for "Southern Accents" for the Petty tribute album. Check out the video here.
Dollywood's Next Festival Opens Friday Friday is opening day for Dollywood's Flower and Food Festival! Check out more than 1 million brilliant blooms in displays throughout the park in larger-than-life floral depictions of a butterfly umbrella, animal scenes and even Dolly's mother quilting her Coat of Many Colors in addition to the Umbrella Sky over Showstreet. The festival concludes June 9.
April 10: Dolly Makes R&B Chart Debut, Hits 111 Country Chart Singles Dolly is all over the April 13 Billboard charts released Tuesday thanks to Beyonce's Cowboy Carter including her first-ever performer appearance on the R&B charts. While the introduction to "Jolene," a spoken interlude titled "Dolly P.," didn't chart due to the magazine's restrictions on interludes and very short tracks being ineligible for chart consideration, her even shorter introduction at the start of the track "Tyrant" is included in the track itself, allowing her to be credited as an official artist on the track.
"Tyrant" debuts at No. 44 on the Hot 100 – marking Dolly's 21st career Hot 100 single and her first since "When I Get Where I'm Going" in 2005 – but the magazine classified it as both a country and rhythm & blues song so that it also comes in at No. 2 R&B digital songs, No. 3 R&B streaming songs, No. 5 Hot R&B Songs, No. 18 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, No. 15 streaming R&B/Hip-Hop songs, No. 5 digital R&B/Hip-Hop songs, No. 12 Hot Country Songs (marking Dolly's 111th chart country single and her first since 2021, when "Cuddle Up, Cozy Down Christmas" with Michael Buble and "Does He Love You" with Reba both made the lower 40s), No. 14 country streaming songs, No. 12 country digital sales, No. 37 all-genre streaming, and No. 71 Canadian Hot 100. It marks her first appearance on the R&B charts, although she had debuted a few weeks ago on its sister chart, rap singles, for her collaboration with Pitbull.
Dolly also returns to the Artist 100 at No. 94, while her Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection re-enters the Country Albums Chart at No. 44, and "Lookin' For You" with Zach Williams earns a fourth week on the Hot Christian Song chart, dipping three to No. 41.
In addition to the chart positions released early and reported in Sunday and Monday nights' updates here, Beyonce's cover of "Jolene" also debuts at No. 6 streaming songs, No. 2 digital song sales, No. 3 country streaming songs, No. 2 country digital song sales, and No. 19 Canadian Hot 100, while the album also debuts at No. 1 Canadian Top 200, current albums, streaming albums, and vinyl albums.
April 9: 'Jolene' Hits Top 10 Country, Pop Singles Beyonce's cover of Dolly's "Jolene" from Cowboy Carter will debut at No. 3 Hot Country Songs with 22.4 million streams and No. 7 all-genre Hit 100 pop singles chart. The album's "Texas Hold 'Em" rebounds to No. 2 pop and No. 1 country while Miley Cyrus' duet "II Most Wanted" hits No. 2 country, No. 6 pop. Dolly's original was a No. 1 country hit and her first entry in the pop Hot 100, coming in at No. 60.
April 8: Dolly's Tom Petty Tribute Released As Single
Big Machine Records on Friday unexpectedly released the second single from this summer's tribute album Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration Of Tom Petty, premiering a music video available here or in the media player above of Dolly's gorgeous contribution to the project, a cover of the title track to Petty's sixth studio album, originally released in 1985. Petty often referred to the song as his favorite of all of those he had written, and it is an origin story referencing his mother, similar to Dolly's own favorite composition, "Coat Of Many Colors." Buy the song for download here! The full album comes out June 21.
'Cowboy Carter' To Dominate All Charts This Week Beyonce's Cowboy Carter dominates the charts this week. Billboard reports it will debut at No. 1 all-genre Top 200 albums, Top Country Albums, Americana/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts while her cover of Dolly's "Jolene" will debut at No. 56 on the Country Airplay charts, recognizing almost 1 million listeners on broadcast country radio nationwide in its first week of availability. The magazine says Dolly's original of "Jolene" saw a 43 percent increase in streaming last week (1.24 million streams vs. 871,000 the previous week). Full U.S. charts will be released Tuesday, but the magazine usually releases some advanced information about singles performance on Monday. Hits Daily Double projected the album would see 418,000 credited U.S. units made up of 171,000 sales and downloads of the full album, 7,000 track-equivalent-albums (TEA) for downloads of individual tracks, and 240,000 credited streaming albums. Billboard reported Sunday their trackers recorded 407,000 units with 168,000 copies sold (62,000 of which were vinyl), 7,000 TEA units, and 232,000 credited streams for over 300 million streams in its first week of release.
Controversy continues with Joy Behar of The View saying she likes Beyonce's version over Dolly's because she finds Dolly's "anti-feminist," something Reba laughed at but otherwise refused to share her opinion of when asked by TMZ. Documentarian Ken Burns, who delved deep into the African-American roots of country music in his PBS documentary series about the genre but also featured Dolly in the program more than any other artist, offered his educated opinion about Beyonce's place in today's country music and its history with an interview in Billboardhere and an op-ed piece in The Washington Posthere.
Down Under, Cowboy Carter debuts at No. 1 on both the Australian all-genre albums chart and country albums chart, while the Aussie all-genre singles chart sees "Texas Hold 'Em" rebound to No. 2, "II Most Wanted" with Dolly goddaughter Miley Cyrus enter at No. 16, and her cover of Dolly's "Jolene" enter at No. 24, compared to Dolly's own 1974 peak at No. 99 on the pop charts Down Under and Olivia Newton-John's No. 29 peak for her cover in 1976. Also on the Australian charts, Dolly's own Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection rises five to No. 15 country albums.
Across the pond, the album's 40,000 units credited allowed it to debut at No. 1 all-genre albums, Scottish albums, streaming albums, download albums, album sales, physical sales, country albums, vinyl albums, and Americana albums. On the all-genre singles chart, "Texas Hold 'Em" returns to No. 1 while "Jolene" debuts at No. 8 and "II Most Wanted" at No. 9 (Dolly's original "Jolene" went to No. 7 pop in the U.K., her first major hit there; other covers that charted in the U.K. included The White Stripes going to No. 16, Strawberry Switchblade at No. 53, and Queenadreena at No. 100). Beyonce's version of "Jolene" also debuts at No. 9 streaming songs, No. 9 audio streaming, No. 10 video streaming for the official lyric video, No. 5 sales, and No. 5 downloads. Her "Tyrant" featuring a spoken into from Dolly and therefore credited to both artists debuts at No. 96 audio streaming, No. 100 sales, and No. 96 downloads in the U.K. Dolly's original recording of the song re-enters the British charts at No. 94 sales and No. 90 downloads.
April 3: Beyonce Country Album Remains In Headlines Beyonce continues to dominate the news and music since last week's release of her new country album, Cowboy Carter, for which Dolly provides two interlude introductions and wrote one song, a cover of her classic "Jolene." Among the newsworthy items:
Beyonce revealed while being honored at the I Heart Music Awards over the weekend that none other than Stevie Wonder plays harmonica on "Jolene." Read more from Varietyhere.
Many media outlets, including US Magazinehere, suggested this week that when she posted a clip from her performing "Pissant Country Place" from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas on Facebook Reels here Dolly was telling off fans who had complained on her social media in recent days about the "Jolene" cover with some comments containing racist undertones. The section in question went: "Are you listening good? Keep them leeches and bloodsuckers off the back rows, I know how to use a gun. And nobody messes with my girls. And any questions you might have about the way I run this place, don't gripe and whine behind my back. Just tell me face to face. I'm open minded. Say it all then go upstairs and pack. The door's that-a-way!"
Rolling Stone reported here that all artists associated with the project have seen skyrocketing streaming attention in recent days, with Dolly's Spotify streams doubling. Her original "Jolene" saw the biggest jump, increasing 11,610 percent. Willie Nelson saw a 190 percent increase in overall streaming, with the largest being a 4,800 percent rise for his most recent duet with Dolly, "From Here To The Moon And Back". And Linda Martell saw a 1,270 percent improvement in her streams over the weekend.
Several media outlets noticed the album's liner notes gave Dolly sole songwriting credit for "Jolene" even though Beyonce completely re-wrote almost every line of each verse of the song. This means Dolly will not have to share any songwriting royalties for the cover with Beyonce and reflects what Dolly herself has done throughout her career. Fond of changing lyrics slightly in many covers she records, Dolly never takes lyrical credit and instead only credits the original writers unless it's a pubic domain traditional song. Whether she changes just a few lines like her 2002 version of "Stairway To Heaven" or re-writes almost the entire verses as she did with her 2014 cover of "Lay Your Hands On Me," just as Beyonce did with "Jolene," she gives the original writers sole credit. Check out some commentary on that from NMEhere and IMDbhere.
A Billboard charts podcast pondered whether the album will win Beyonce her long-denied Album of the Year trophy at the Grammys and what song may be the next single, perhaps "Jolene"? Listen here.
Williams Duet Still On Christian Song Chart "Lookin' For You" with Zach Williams earns a third week on the Hot Christian Song chart, holding steady at No. 38, the April 6 Billboard charts released Tuesday revealed. Dolly's Diamonds & Rhinestones, The Greatest Hits Collection falls off the 50-position Country Albums chart, down from No. 49 in its 26th chart week.
April 1: 'Jolene' Tops iTunes U.S. Singles Chart Beyonce dropped Cowboy Carter on Friday featuring Dolly and "Jolene," and it was an immediate hit. On Saturday, the album set the year's Spotify record of the most one-day streams for an album at 76 million, with "Jolene" reaching No. 2 on the U.S. Spotify chart that day. By Saturday night, "Jolene" had reached No. 1 on the Apple Music charts (with the album's Miley Cyrus duet "II Most Wanted" at No. 2, "Texas Hold 'Em" at No. 3, and "Blackbird" with Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiera Kennedy & Reyna Roberts at No. 4). Hits Daily Double expects the set to debut at No. 1 with more than 350,000 unit credits for the week (up to 300,000 of which would be credits for streaming). After the album was released, Dolly responded via social media: "Wow! I just heard Jolene. Beyonce is giving that girl some trouble and she deserves it! Dolly P." Dolly has a spoken appearance on the track "Dolly P.," an interlude which serves as an introduction for "Jolene." She also has a much briefer introduction at the start of the track "Tyrant," and Marie Claire reported here that Beyonce played her nails as percussion on the track "Riverdance" in tribute to Dolly. However, it's not all roses, as critical comments posted by some fans on Dolly's social media, many of which contained hints of racism, generated clickbait stories of Dolly fans being angry over the cover. Several other articles analyzed the lyrics which Beyonce re-wrote to threaten Jolene with harm if she touches her man, as opposed to the vulnerability of Dolly's pleading with Jolene not to take him.
Dolly Book Made Official Tenn. Book A classic tale from Dolly's childhood is about to become part of her home state's history. Her 2016 children's book adaptation of her classic song Coat Of Many Colors is joining nine other titles as the first-ever Official Books of the State of Tennessee. Dolly's is the most recently-published book on the list of literary works of "historic, social and cultural importance to the Volunteer State." The other nine titles are: Farewell Address to the American People by George Washington, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, The Aitken Bible, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Roots by Alex Haley, A Death in the Family by James Agee, All the King's Men" by Robert Warren, American Lion by Jon Meacham, and The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote. The bill passed the House last month and the state Senate last week. It awaits the governor's signature to become law.
Special Fan Gets Birthday Greetings Superfan Jason Denton attended Dollywood's season opening last month and presented Dolly his usual flower arrangement of yellow roses that he sends her on special occassions, and she returned the favor with a birthday greeting video shared to Facebook here or in the media player below. Happy 50th, Jason!
