August 27, 2026 12:44 PM
Dolly Parton, queen of country music, dies at 80
Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: "Little Tiny Tasseltop," an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox. "I loved that little doll," Parton wrote decades later. "I expressed myself and my feelings through writing - I’m sure what I was thinking was, 'Well, Tasseltop has to have a song about her.'" Parton never stopped making music after that. The irrepressible country music singer, songwriter and actress whose charisma, ...