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

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

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 ... and female problems” along with a host of other issues. In 1984, she ...

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 ...

Dolly Parton is paying tribute to her late husband ... to keep other people off me," Parton told The Associated Press in 1984.

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 ...