Dolly Parton News

Legacy Recordings has just launched the first of a four-part Dolly podcast hosted by Eric Chase. The first podcast debuted today and a new podcast will be released every Wednesday this month. Each podcast will feature music from Dolly’s new box set, interviews with Dolly’s friends and other singer-songwriters, and an interview with Dolly from the mid-70’s as she discusses her life, music and creative process. This week’s podcast features Laura Cantrell and Janis Ian commenting on Dolly’s music along with clips of songs from early on in Dolly’s career like “Joshua”, “Down From Dover”, “Daddy’s Moonshine Still”, “In The Good Old Days”, and “Coat Of Many Colors”. Check back next Wednesday for the second podcast!

Dolly will be stopping by the GAC studios this week for an interview to promote her Live From London CD/DVD and GAC is asking fans to send in their questions for Dolly! Fans are encouraged to send their most unique questions before tomorrow, November 5 at 12 noon Central.

Dolly is one of several honorees being inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame this coming weekend in Nashville along with Kid Rock, Charlie Daniels, Ernest Tubb and Tootsie Bess. Each honoree will have a star-and-guitar marker unveiled in their names in downtown Nashville this Sunday, November 8th, at the Hall of Fame Park on Demonbreun between 4th and 5th Avenues South. Dolly is scheduled to attend the public event which kicks off at 2 PM.

Another new video clip from the upcoming Live From London has debuted on country music blog, The Boot, this time of Dolly singing “I Will Always Love You”. The live album CD/DVD combo drops next week and is available for pre-order now from Amazon and her official website.

After much anticipation, Dolly’s new career-spanning box set hits stores today featuring seven previously unreleased tracks and a full-color 60 page booklet with never-before-seen photos. Fans who ordered the box set via Sony/Legacy also received A Real Live Dolly as a free fully remastered bonus album which also included four additional bonus tracks. The box set is still available with the free bonus album for a limited time from Sony/Legacy. Fans not wanting the free bonus album can also order the box set at a discounted rate of just $30.99 from Amazon for a limited time.

Also hitting stores today is Kenny Roger’s new box set Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years which features a new duet with Dolly on the song “Tell Me That You Love Me”. Their new duet is also available on Kenny Rogers: The Greatest Duets CD which features all the duets from his box set. Check out the new photo of Dolly and Kenny on the left which is featured inside the album.

And finally, watch the promo video for Dolly’s box set featuring archival footage of Dolly singing “9 To 5″ with pop-up factoids here:

Dolly has partnered with CMT and Shop.com to present the “Holly Dolly Christmas Sweepstakes”. From now through December 13th, fans can enter for a chance to win a five minute phone call from Dolly as well as Dolly prizes, a shopping spree from Shop.com, and prizes from Loveless Cafe. Visit CMT.com for your chance to win! The full prize packages are as follows:

1 Grand Prize:

* SHOP.COM shopping spree for $2,500.
* One (1) five minute phone call with Dolly Parton.
* One (1) Loveless Deluxe Breakfast gift basket from Loveless Cafe.
* One (1) autographed Dolly Parton prize pack including her new cd/dvd 2 disc set, Live from London.

1 Second Prize:

* SHOP.COM shopping spree for $1,000.
* One (1) Cafe Sampler Gift Pack from Loveless Cafe.
* One (1) autographed Dolly Parton prize pack including her new cd/dvd 2 disc set, Live from London.

1 Third Prize:

* SHOP.COM shopping spree for $500.
* One (1) Ham’s & Jam’s Gift Pack from Loveless Cafe.
* One (1) autographed Dolly Parton prize pack including her new cd/dvd 2 disc set, Live from London.

For today only (October 26th), fans can order the new Dolly box set at a special discounted price of $27.49 from barnesandnoble.com. Please note that you must order the box set directly from Sony/Legacy at the normal price to receive the free bonus album of A Real Live Dolly.

Dolly dishes about her life, career and numerous upcoming projects in a new interview that is making the rounds through various Canadian newspapers syndicated by Sun Media. In the interview, Dolly reveals that she’ll likely tour toward the end of next year and she still plans on releasing both a dance album and children’s album. “I have done a lot of dance songs and I will put that out at the right time. I have a lot of fans that love to dance; I have a huge gay following,” Dolly states. “I definitely would love to do a children’s show like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, something entertaining to grownups too. And I will do some children’s albums; in fact, I have that kind of on a front burner.” As for what she’s working on now, Dolly said “Right now, I’m working on a musical of my life story for the next several months. It will be for Broadway or a movie; I haven’t decided yet.” Read the entire interview from the Winnipeg Sun.