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Backwoods are the highest street credibility in their industry.
And she tells the best provincial blonde jokes herself anyway.
These are just two of the many reasons why you just have to love Dolly Parton, the running country music meter (well, it's 152 centimeters never without heels).
Even if you can't do anything with bluegrass and banjo twang.
No one in the music industry laughs so unrestrainedly at themselves. And none is so small and yet so big.
This country giant will turn 75 on Tuesday.
You don't believe it, if only because she hid her true self behind an eternally young mask at an early stage and consistently, fake blonde and beauty-optimized since she was 22 years old.
Behind this is a soul that is as beautiful as it is vulnerable, and above all very complex.
Quick-witted, clever, creative, warm-hearted and extremely enterprising - this is how she became the fourth of twelve siblings in a poor family from the Smoky Mountains, first in Tennessee, then in the rest of the world.
Creativity, especially musicality, ran in the family's blood.
Sister Pamela also made a career, and even more goddaughter Miley Cyrus.
Especially as Queen of the Grand Ole Opry, St. Peter's Basilica in Nashville, a concert hall with a radio show, Parton conquered the charts and also popular rankings.
In 1959, at the age of 13, she sang her first song "Puppy Love" there.
She has sold over 100 million records since her first single "Dumb Blond" (1966).
Even with this self-deprecating title, she showed that she could be expected to pull out her plastic fingernails if she went against the lip gloss line.
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She married only once, in 1966 the building contractor Carl Dean, whom she met in a laundromat.
He is the great stranger.
Parton always knew what to share, but also when to close the door.
She keeps her fans at a proper distance, and yet she lures them in droves to her own Dollywood theme park.
Dolly Parton has outlived all fast-paced pop fashions, has always reinvented itself.
She is a declared Republican, devout, believes America is
Gods own country
.
It asserted itself in a macho business, also because it initially led many to believe that this high-energy bundle of will and voice shouldn't be taken very seriously.
Dolly Parton never referred to herself as a feminist.
She fervently intoned US patriotic chants and church hymns, but she never let the butter be taken off her bread.
The third LP - from 80 to date - was called the challenging “Just Because I'm a Woman”, and it quickly surpassed her stirrup holder Porter Wagoner and his TV show.
The rest is music history.
Not just because of her songs, which she mostly writes herself.
Her song "I Will Always Love You" in Whitney Houston's cover version, the best-selling single by a singer, was most successful.
“Jolene” is Dolly Parton's most frequently interpreted title with 44 sung variants.
By the way, she herself sang in "Coat of Many Colors" in 1971 about something that is now called diversity.
She hugged her gay fans early and honestly and didn't give a damn about the intolerant redneck clientele.
She can never be called a Trumpian, and she has donated over a million dollars to Covid research.
Dolly Parton has published five books, two for children.
One comes closest to the total work of art Dolly P. through the recently published autobiography “Dolly Parton - Songteller.
My Life in Lyrics ”.
There are terrific, kitschy-creepy photos and simple, but apt heartbeats.
Dolly, that's always "Light of a Clear Blue Morning".
You immediately believe this small, upright, authentic woman.