The woman Dolly Parton brought to life in her song “Jolene” is perhaps one of country music’s most famous fictional characters, with her “flaming locks of auburn hair,” “Ivory skin” and “Eyes of ...

Reminded me of someone I knew back when. Except she has flaming locks of auburn hair." But the Beyoncé version tweaked the lyrics to "Jolene," including changing "I'm begging of you please don't ...

Unlike in the original, there are no acknowledgments of Jolene’s “flaming locks of auburn hair” and soft voice like “summer rain”. Instead, Beyoncé notes that it “Takes more than ...

Here's how Dolly Parton's relationship with Carl Dean in their early years of marriage played a role in the creation of one of her most iconic songs.

Oregon Zoo / photo by Hannah Carbonneau. This April, baby Jolene, named for her auburn hair, turns three. In some species of animal, three might mean adulthood. But not in orangutans. Visitors to ...

The woman Dolly Parton brought to life in her song "Jolene" is perhaps one of country music's most famous fictional characters, with her "flaming locks of auburn hair," "Ivory skin" and "Eyes of ...

Jolene / Please don't take him just because you can." And of course, Parton had to shout of her red-headed muses. "Your beauty is beyond compare / With flaming locks of auburn hair / With ivory ...