Dolly Parton's greatest songs, and the stories behind them

The essential songs of Dolly Parton

It’s nearly impossible reduce the country superstar to just one facet. But her songwriting is what started it all.

Dolly Parton wrote the song we’ll forever play on repeat

Here’s the paradox at the center of it: Dolly looked like someone who had invented herself, while somehow never seeming invented.

Dolly Parton's greatest songs, and the stories behind them

Dolly Parton was a legendary figure in music and beyond. Her songwriting was at the heart of her incredible life. Parton died Tuesday. She was 80. Some of her most iconic songs include "Just Because I’m a Woman," which challenges…

Heart, hope and a steely determination: Dolly Parton’s musical legacy – CEO NA Magazine

Parton was about six years old when she wrote her first song: Little Tiny Tasseltop, an ode to her favourite doll and its corn-silk hair. For the rest of her career, she turned everyday details like those into songs of hope and heart. Her 1971 classic Coat of Many Colors tells the profoundly moving story of Parton as a child being proud of the ragged, hand-sewn clothes her mother had made for her. The 1974 concept album My Tennessee Mountain Hom…