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Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, and the Women Who Wrote Our 2020 SoundtrackThere are a whole lot of ways you can tell the story of 2020, but for us here at BGS, it will be remembered as a year of especially remarkable songwriting from women in roots music. We lead our playlist with the one and only Dolly Parton, who assured us…

Dolly in December

Beth Behrs: What Dolly Parton Means to MeEveryone has a “Dolly Story." Whether it’s a personal interaction (like when Brandi Carlile confessed on my podcast, Harmonics, that when she met her backstage at Newport Folk Fest, Dolly prayed with Brandi to calm her nerves) or the first time you heard your own story in one of her…

Dolly in December

Deck the Halls With Lots of Dolly: 5 Favorite Christmas MomentsSolidifying her position as our favorite person of 2020, Dolly Parton served up not one, but TWO holiday treats this year: the new Netflix movie, Christmas on the Square, and A Holly Dolly Christmas, her first Christmas album in thirty years. The woman never stops, and with the arrival of…

Dolly in December

2020: The Year of Dolly PartonDolly Parton kept her promise to bring good into the world in 2020 and beyond. For so many reasons, this is absolutely the Year of Dolly Parton. Marking her 50th anniversary as an Opry member in October 2019, she told reporters, “This world is just so dark, ugly and awful.…

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