{"id":824393,"date":"2026-07-26T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:24:12","slug":"the-wonderful-1960s-singer-dolly-parton-called-her-music-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824393\/","title":{"rendered":"The “wonderful” 1960s singer Dolly Parton called her music sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dolly<\/p>\n

Credit: Far Out \/ Album Cover<\/p>\n

Sun 26 July 2026 3:00, UK <\/p>\n

Dolly Parton<\/a> had a natural habit of making every single member of the country world feel like family. <\/p>\n

Even when she wasn\u2019t on top of the charts any more and riding the momentum of being a legacy artist, she seemed to be like the fun aunt that everyone wanted to hang out with whenever she got up onstage to sing tunes like \u2018Jolene\u2019. Every single piece of her career was like watching one of the most wholesome singers of all time rise to the top, but she knew that she had more than a few friends who were just as important as she was in the world of country music.<\/p>\n

First of all, Parton was going to be forever grateful for what people like Porter Wagoner had done for her career. She didn\u2019t want to be living under his wing for the rest of her days by any means, but her duets with him at the beginning of her career were going to be much less interesting than her seeing what else was out there every single time she made one of her own records.<\/p>\n

She was born to be a star on her own, and it wasn\u2019t like she was the only woman trying to assert her independence around that time. Because as much as country music has been known for its beloved patriarchs of the genre like George Jones<\/a> and Johnny Cash, Parton was proud to be in the same conversation as people like Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline whenever she sang one of her songs.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t only about women getting their foot in the door at the time. Anyone could have been able to be a pinup star for a few years and then disappear, but the real mark of a great artist was being able to have their own distinctive voice on every song. Parton had gone back to her roots plenty of times on tunes like \u2018Coat of Many Colors\u2019<\/a>, but no one seemed to be more interested in tearing down gender stereotypes than Loretta Lynn.<\/p>\n

Lynn wasn\u2019t trying to be a revolutionary songwriter when making tunes like \u2018Coal Miner\u2019s Daughter\u2019, but if you look at some of her confrontational songs, she was ready to get blunt at every opportunity. \u2018Fist City\u2019 is one of the most threatening songs that any country star had ever made up until that point, and \u2018The Pill\u2019 was revolutionary<\/a> at a time when people didn\u2019t even think about talking about birth control on Music Row. <\/p>\n

So when Lynn passed away, Parton felt like she had lost a member of her musical family when she heard the news, saying<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve been like sisters all the years we\u2019ve been in Nashville, and she was a wonderful human being, wonderful talent, had millions of fans, and I\u2019m one of them. I miss her dearly as we all will.\u201d But that doesn\u2019t diminish the footprint that Lynn has left behind over the years, either.<\/p>\n

Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n

There are plenty of female country artists who have tried to stretch themselves solely based on what she had done for the culture. It\u2019s easy to paint a clear line between Lynn and what Reba McEntire would eventually do when making her own versions of tunes like \u2018Fancy\u2019 by Bobbie Gentry, and acts like The Chicks are practically indebted to what Lynn had done, only filtered through the rootsy sounds of someone like Stevie Nicks.<\/p>\n

Parton was already a power player in the industry when Lynn was cutting her teeth, but the \u2018Jolene\u2019 singer didn\u2019t just see another songwriter in her when she made it big. She saw someone who was willing to speak up for what she believed in, and no one could really touch someone when they set themselves free like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE \"\"\/ <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Far Out \/ Album Cover Sun 26 July 2026 3:00, UK Dolly Parton had a natural habit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,8649,134,398189],"class_list":["post-824393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-loretta-lynn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}