East Tennessee native Dolly Parton is the focus of an upcoming podcast series by former Nashville resident Jad Abumrad, who co-hosts the popular public radio series Radiolab with Robert Krulwich. Titled Dolly Parton’s America, the nine-part series arrives this fall and looks at what Parton’s storybook life reveals about the …
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Steve Nicks, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves and other high-profile artists are donating instruments, signed memorabilia and other items as part of the Girls Rock Reverb Gives Auction. The week-long sale, which launches Tuesday, May 21st via the Reverb site, will benefit 10 nonprofits focused on empowering female, transgender and gender …
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“This dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool,” sing Dolly Parton and Miranda Lambert on an updated version of Parton’s 1967 offering “Dumb Blonde.” The country vocalists team up to harmonize on the song for the soundtrack to Dumplin‘, the new Netflix film about a Parton-obsessed teenager. Written by Curly Putman, “Dumb …
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