Dolly Parton

Parton's interviews combine a storyteller's timing with a songwriter's practical understanding of her work. Her 2001 Fresh Air conversation moves from the music of her childhood into the choices behind her return to roots recordings; the 2023 Howard Stern interview adds vivid accounts of writing and protecting songs. The humour makes technical and business decisions approachable without making them trivial. Start with those longer exchanges for the intelligence beneath the rhinestones, and for answers that keep returning to the song itself.