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John Mayer Performs Soulful Cover of ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Tribute to Dolly Parton
Confirmed
"Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched," her team said in a statement. Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because, after a life of wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest.
Having written thousands of songs across her decades-long career, Parton said songwriting was her greatest form of self-expression. "I thought, 'Ooh, that's what I want to be when I grow up — trash,'" Parton said.
They had me so scared of God, I was afraid to talk to him.... [But] I really, through the years, found my own place with God. She has described the Opry as the "church of my heart" and said performing there was a lifelong dream.
"I started playing guitar and writing serious songs when I was about 7 years old," she said. So he said, "This damn television's out of here.
What's confirmed
- "Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched," her team said in a statement.
- Having written thousands of songs across her decades-long career, Parton said songwriting was her greatest form of self-expression.
- They had me so scared of God, I was afraid to talk to him....
- "I started playing guitar and writing serious songs when I was about 7 years old," she said.
What's still developing
- She has described the Opry as the "church of my heart" and said performing there was a lifelong dream.
- Having written thousands of songs across her decades-long career, Parton said songwriting was her greatest form of self-expression.
- "I thought, 'Ooh, that's what I want to be when I grow up — trash,'" Parton said.
- "I started playing guitar and writing serious songs when I was about 7 years old," she said.
- They had me so scared of God, I was afraid to talk to him. ... [But] I really, through the years, found my own place with God.
- So he said, "This damn television's out of here.
- "Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched," her team said in a statement.
- Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because, after a life of wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest.