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

Dolly Parton has died at age eighty, PBS NewsHour reports. Parton was a singer, actor, author, philanthropist, and theme-park entrepreneur, but above all a songwriter — a figure the outlet describes as larger-than-life in the American cultural imagination.

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