C arl Dean, Dolly Parton’s devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene ...

Did you know Dolly Parton wrote and gave away two songs to her country music contemporaries Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings ...

I would always lighten up when that particular song was due in the setlist," said Dolly Parton of her 1983 hit with Kenny ...

Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean were married ... problems and female problems" along with a host of other issues. In 1984, she was diagnosed with endometriosis. The following year, at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton has released a breathtaking new ballad in tribute ... Parton telling The Associated Press in 1984: “A lot of people say there’s no Carl Dean, that he’s just somebody I ...

Dolly Parton has paid tribute to her husband ... prompting her to tell the Associated Press in 1984 that people often doubted her husband’s existence. “A lot of people say there’s no ...

FILE - Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating ... Parton telling The Associated Press in 1984: “A lot of people say there’s no Carl Dean, that he’s just somebody I made up to ...

Their relationship inspired several of Parton's songs, most notably "Jolene," which she wrote after a flirtatious bank teller developed a crush on Dean. The couple's privacy was so fiercely guarded ...