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“I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT… THAT WAS NICE OF HER.” — JOHNNY CASH, AFTER HEARING DOLLY PARTON CALL HIM HER FIRST CRUSH ON LIVE TV. Dolly Parton was 13 when Johnny Cash introduced her at the Grand Ole Opry. She watched him move on that stage and felt something she couldn’t explain. Years later, on Ralph Emery’s show, she finally said it out loud — Cash was the first man who made her understand what sex appeal was. Then she laughed and added: “Which now I know was just being horny.” But that magnetic way he moved, all that restless energy she found so irresistible — she found out later it was actually him coming off drugs. Just twitches. What she thought was pure charisma was something else entirely. The camera cut to Johnny. His mouth twitched into a quiet smile. Eyes darting around the room. When asked to respond, he kept it to five words: “I really appreciate that… that was nice of her.” She told him for years he was her first crush. She even told June. And June, somehow, never got jealous. Dolly’s explanation was simple: “She’s a loudmouth like me. So we got along just fine.”

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Introduction I Really Appreciate That: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, and a Quiet Moment of Respect on Live TV Some stories stay with people because they are flashy. This one stayed…

Dolly Parton Loretta Lynn News

“SHE HAD MILLIONS OF FANS, AND I’M ONE OF THEM.” — DOLLY PARTON, ABOUT THE WOMAN THE PRESS CALLED HER BIGGEST RIVAL. The press had their favorite story for decades — two mountain girls from Appalachia, fighting over the same Nashville crown. Dolly against Loretta. Every magazine, every interview, same angle. Meanwhile, Dolly was writing the foreword to Loretta’s book, where she said they both “eclipsed their male counterparts” — and it caused friction with everyone except each other. Loretta was calling Dolly her “mountain sister” every birthday, every milestone. And in 1993, the two of them walked into a studio with Tammy Wynette and recorded Honky Tonk Angels — an album that sold 500,000 copies. If you listen closely, some of the songs they each wrote over the years almost sound like quiet answers to each other. Not arguments — just conversations that Nashville never got to sit in on. After Loretta passed in 2022, Dolly didn’t write a long statement. She just said: “She had millions of fans, and I’m one of them.”

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Introduction “She Had Millions of Fans, and I’m One of Them”: Dolly Parton on Loretta Lynn and a Friendship Nashville Misread for Years For decades, the press loved a simple…

Dolly Parton News

On June 29, 2014, Dolly — 68 years old, from Locust Ridge, Tennessee — stepped onto the Pyramid Stage wearing a white rhinestone-covered pants suit, and over 180,000 people were waiting. Every other stage at the festival went empty. Even the other performers left their sets to watch. Security guards choreographed their own dance moves to “Jolene.” Young fans in the crowd wore blonde wigs. She played “Coat of Many Colors,” “9 to 5,” and when Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi came out for “Lay Your Hands On Me,” the whole field shook. Dolly looked out at all of it — the mud, the wigs, the English countryside — and said, “I’m just a country girl and now I feel like a rock star.” Right before the show, she’d received a plaque marking 100 million albums sold worldwide. But you could tell that number meant less to her than what she saw from that stage.

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Introduction The Day Dolly Parton Turned a Muddy English Field Into Her Own Front Porch On June 29, 2014, Dolly Parton walked onto the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival with…

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