Dolly Parton’s 50th anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member was given the network TV treatment Tuesday night, with the Tennessee native and entertainment icon joined on an NBC special by guests and friends including Emmylou Harris, Toby Keith, Hank Williams Jr., Dierks Bentley, Margo Price, Lady Antebellum, and Chris Janson. Parton, who became a member of the long-running radio show in 1969, reminisced throughout the show about her young life in East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains as well as her history-making career, which has taken her around the globe countless times since she left home on a bus bound for Music City one day after graduating from high school in 1964. Among the musical highlights of the two-hour special were the show-opening “Islands in the Stream,” sung by Lady Antebellum, Price’s version of “The Seeker,” Janson’s fiery “Muleskinner Blues,” and Harris’s gorgeous take on “To Daddy,” a hit for her in 1977. But it was Parton’s own rendering of her songs that formed the emotional core of the tribute, and she delivered them in true Dolly fashion, accompanied by self-deprecating humor and sentimental gratitude. Two of those songs, “Coat of Many Colors” and “Jolene,” have personal stories from Parton’s… Read full this story
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