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Folk Songs & Country Here is where you can find the best songs and music videos from the golden decades of Country 60s 70s 80s.

We bring you an emotional journey through the classic tunes of top Country and artists.

SHE WROTE A CHECK FOR A VACCINE BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW THE ENDING.In 2020 Dolly sent a million dollars to Vanderbilt. She...
09/19/2026

SHE WROTE A CHECK FOR A VACCINE BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW THE ENDING.
In 2020 Dolly sent a million dollars to Vanderbilt. She did not wait for a press tour. Researchers later said the gift helped move Moderna’s work forward. She joked that she wanted people well enough to come hear her sing. Under the joke was the same instinct as the books and the scholarships: if you can shorten someone else’s fear, you do it.

❤️ If you could fund one quiet act of care, what would it be?

HE HAS WON MORE THAN TWENTY GRAMMYS AND SUNG WITH EVERY GIANT IN NASHVILLE—BUT NOTHING PREPARED VINCE GILL FOR THE NIGHT...
09/18/2026

HE HAS WON MORE THAN TWENTY GRAMMYS AND SUNG WITH EVERY GIANT IN NASHVILLE—BUT NOTHING PREPARED VINCE GILL FOR THE NIGHT HIS VOICE BROKE ON THE FIRST LINE, AND THE CROWD HAD TO FINISH DOLLY’S SONG FOR HIM.
In 1995, Dolly Parton called and asked Vince Gill to cut “I Will Always Love You” with her. He said yes before the sentence was done. Then he did the thing that mattered more than the chart: he called his father in the middle of the night. The old man had watched Dolly on television for years and never admitted it. The next afternoon she hugged him in the studio like kin. Vince kept that photograph. He said it was the biggest smile he ever saw on his dad’s face in forty years.
Thirty-one years later, two days after Dolly was gone, Vince stood in Kansas City and told the room his whole house was crushed. He first sang “Go Rest High on That Mountain”—the hymn he wrote for his brother—and dedicated it to “my sister Dolly.” Then he reached for their duet. On the first chorus his voice failed. The band wiped their eyes. The audience carried the lyric until he could find it again.
He has said the most beautiful sound he ever heard was the last note they shared at the 1995 CMA Awards. What he did not say on that Midland Theatre stage—what he carried home to Amy and the family—is the quieter reason that last note still undoes him.

Her father never learned to read. She built a library for the whole world so no child would feel that shame.Robert Lee P...
09/18/2026

Her father never learned to read. She built a library for the whole world so no child would feel that shame.
Robert Lee Parton was brilliant with numbers and stubborn as the Tennessee hills. He also could not read a single word. Work came before school. Twelve children. A cabin with no electricity. Dolly watched a proud man hide that wound his whole life. In 1995 she started mailing one free book a month to babies in her home county—so a child would never have to pretend. Before he died in 2000, her daddy told her the Imagination Library was the most important thing she had ever done. Those words outlasted the sequins. She died August 25, 2026, at 80. The books still arrive.

For most of her life, Dolly Parton seemed born for the road. Bright lights, packed theaters, long nights on tour, and au...
09/18/2026

For most of her life, Dolly Parton seemed born for the road. Bright lights, packed theaters, long nights on tour, and audiences stretching across generations became part of the rhythm of her extraordinary career. Yet as the years passed, Dolly began making a different kind of choice — one that had little to do with applause.

She increasingly stepped away from the idea of large-scale touring, favoring selected appearances, recording projects, and commitments that allowed her greater control over her time. Behind that change was something Dolly had spoken about publicly for years: she wanted more time at home with her husband, Carl Dean.

Their story had begun long before Dolly became an international icon.

Dolly and Carl married on May 30, 1966, in Ringgold, Georgia, beginning a marriage that would endure for nearly six decades. While Dolly became one of the most recognizable entertainers in the world, Carl chose almost the opposite path. He rarely appeared at celebrity events and generally stayed away from cameras, interviews, and the machinery of show business.

That contrast became one of the defining qualities of their marriage.

Dolly belonged to the stage. Carl preferred home.

And somehow, they built a life that allowed both worlds to exist.

As they grew older, Dolly spoke openly about wanting to remain closer to Carl rather than disappearing for weeks at a time on an enormous tour. She could still write, record, collaborate, and make carefully chosen appearances without surrendering months of ordinary life at home.

In retrospect, that decision carries even greater emotional weight.

Carl Dean died in March 2025 at the age of 82, bringing to an end a marriage that had lasted almost 59 years. Dolly’s public statement was characteristically simple and personal, emphasizing the many wonderful years they had shared.

Their relationship had survived something few marriages ever encounter: one partner becoming a global institution while the other remained determined to live beyond the glare of celebrity.

Perhaps that was part of what protected them.

For decades, fans saw Dolly in rhinestones beneath enormous spotlights. Carl knew the woman who came home after those lights went dark.

And toward the later chapter of their life together, the road seemed to matter less than being able to return home.

After all the records, awards, costumes, television appearances, and unforgettable songs, one of Dolly Parton’s most meaningful choices may have been remarkably ordinary: choosing time with the person who had been beside her since before the world knew her name.

Some promises are made beneath stage lights.

Others are made quietly, with almost nobody watching.

And sometimes, those are the promises that last the longest.

REBA HAD SHARED A STAGE WITH DOLLY FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AND SOLD TENS OF MILLIONS OF RECORDS—BUT NOTHING PREPARED HER ...
09/17/2026

REBA HAD SHARED A STAGE WITH DOLLY FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AND SOLD TENS OF MILLIONS OF RECORDS—BUT NOTHING PREPARED HER FOR THE WEIGHT OF THAT BUTTERFLY RING WHEN THE EMMY LIGHTS WENT DOWN.
In 1977, a young Reba McEntire was about to make her Grand Ole Opry debut when the schedule was cut so Dolly Parton could walk on instead. Reba later said she would have given up both songs just to meet her. Nearly five decades later—after arenas, sitcoms, awards, and a friendship that outlasted almost everything in Nashville—Reba stood alone at the 78th Emmy Awards in a white sequined gown, Dolly’s own rhinestone earrings and butterfly ring on her hands, and sang “Appalachian Memories.”
The song was never a radio smash. It was Dolly’s letter home: a father, a mountain, a family that never left her even after the world learned her name. Reba chose it because it was about the same thing that had held her own life together—an Oklahoma ranch, a late mother who once dreamed of singing, a son named Shelby who grew up watching two queens of country treat each other like kin.
Sally Field called Dolly an angel. Then the house went quiet. Images of the Smokies rolled behind Reba. She finished the last note, looked into the dark, and said, “I love you, Dolly. So much.”
What almost no one in that theater knew was how the jewelry arrived—and what Reba whispered backstage after the cameras cut.
If this friendship ever meant something to you, tap the link. Then tell us in the comments which Dolly song still stops you in your tracks.

When Dolly Parton died, Alan Jackson did not write a eulogy. He sent her on an errand. “They’ll never be another one lik...
09/17/2026

When Dolly Parton died, Alan Jackson did not write a eulogy. He sent her on an errand. “They’ll never be another one like you,” he posted. “The world won’t forget you. Now go shake up heaven.”
Years earlier, the assignment had run the other way. After Loretta Lynn and Naomi Judd were gone, Dolly named the song that brought them back to her: Alan’s hymn “Precious Memories.” She loved one line in particular — unseen angels sent from somewhere to her soul. She said those friends still moved in and out of her like that.
So the quiet man in the white hat and the woman in rhinestones had already been trading comfort. She used his song to keep the dead close. He used four sentences to send her toward them. Country music is often accused of being simple. This is how simple it is: one artist hands another a map to grief, and later the other hands it back, pointed at the sky.

She wrote the goodbye song the world still can’t stop singing—then Nashville gets two live hours to say it back.Dolly Pa...
09/17/2026

She wrote the goodbye song the world still can’t stop singing—then Nashville gets two live hours to say it back.
Dolly Parton died August 25 at 80 after a brief, private fight with cancer. She left more than sequins and “Jolene.” The girl from a one-room cabin in the Smokies mailed hundreds of millions of free books through Imagination Library, lifted strangers she would never meet, and once handed Whitney Houston the song she wrote as a tender farewell to Porter Wagoner—then watched it become one of the most loved recordings on Earth.
On October 21 at 9 p.m. ET, ABC airs CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton, live from Belmont University’s Fisher Center. Performances, rare footage, and stories will trace the woman who turned hardship into hope. Proceeds go back to her book program. Country’s heart is coming home to thank her.

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