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Dolly Parton: The Essential Dolly Parton

Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005

DON'T BE FOOLED by the high hair, long nails or curvy torso. Dolly Parton may appear, on the surface, to be a prairie poppet moulded and marketed by the masculine elders of Nashville, but right from the beginning she was all about the empowerment of women.

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