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Remembering moments with the Daughter of Sevier County and their unexpected connections to my life in lawAlmost everyone who lives in Sevier County has a story about its favorite daughter—internationally known singer, songwriter, movie star, business

Jerry Summers - Betty Bean Knoxville Reporter Thursday, June 17, 2021 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers When the names of female reporters in Tennessee who pioneered in the field of journalism arises one individuals name stands out in the Knoxville area.             As a writer for the Knoxville Journal, Knox Tenn Today, Metro Pulse, Knoxville Scene, and the Shopper News for 30 years or more, Betty Bean has interviewed and profiled many prominent and non-prominent individuals du...

“I knew my heart would break when he passed, and it did,” Parton wrote. “I’ll start this eulogy by saying I wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t been there. He was there… there in my young years to encourage me to keep playing my guitar, to keep writing my songs, to keep practicing my singing. “And he was there to help build my confidence standing on stage where he was always standing behind me or close beside me with his big ol’ red Gretsch guitar.⁣” Parton said Owens would take...

Who was the man who discovered Dolly Parton? Cas Walker was a character and a half. Here's his story and how he came across Dolly Parton.

Film Archivist Unearths Footage of 14-Year-Old Dolly Parton Dollywood theme park and the benevolent force responsible for the Dolly Parton was a teenage dreamer in East Tennessee. Thanks to Knoxville-area film archivist Matthew Reeves, we can now see 14-year-old Parton perform at an outdoor event organized by Smoky Mountain celebrity and As both the footage and the accompanying studio recording of "Making Believe" establish, Parton developed at a young age into the singer-songwriter and live ...

Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! The country music icon was born on this day, Jan. 19, in 1946, in a tiny, one-room cabin in Sevier County, Tenn. Parton was the fourth of 12 children born to parents Robert and Avie; her father reportedly paid the doctor who oversaw her birth with a bag of oatmeal. Parton showed an early propensity for music and began singing in church when she was just a little girl. By the time she was eight, she was writing songs and playing guitar; she made her first appeara...

“Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics” by Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann. Chronicle Books. 380 pp. $50. Review provided by The Washington Post. Dolly Parton doesn’t remember if she actually wrote two of her greatest songs, “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene,” on the same day, as the legend has long been told, but the point is that she could have. By her own reckoning, Parton, 74, has written more than 3,000 songs, beginning with an ode to her corn...