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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 appearance at the Grand Ole Opry when she was only 10 years old. The future music legend began performin...

“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 corncob doll, Tasseltop, when she was 6. “I may look like a show pony,” Parton writes in her e...