Then came the hits: Taste and Good Graces, both serving as a vengeful middle finger to an ex; Slim Pickins, a country-influenced ballad that is a far better modern update on Parton’s wronged ...

There's space between the crowd and "la la la la la" hook to give the vocal extra room to shine ... Kash can be found tending to an ever-growing houseplant collection and shooing her cat Jolene away ...

Heart-tugging songs were always her specialty, and if your heart is not tugged by “Jolene” or “Coat Of ... Day” (on which she played the piano hook); on the other, she wrote one of the ...

The hook demands to be belted ... While Dolly Parton’s public persona has always been effervescent, “Jolene” is haunting, as if Dolly’s pleading for her life as much as her love.

The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in which she begs the beautiful title woman not to take her man, was inspired by a real bank teller's interactions with her ...

Dolly Parton's fans have always been desperate to know who the real Jolene was that inspired her iconic song of the same name. Considered by music critics to be one of the most standout songs of ...

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away in Nashville at 82. Dean was the inspiration for Parton's hit song "Jolene," based on a bank teller who admired him. The couple met in 1964 and ...

Carl Dean, who died March 3, caught the eye of a bank teller in the 1970s – leading Parton to write "Jolene." The song begs another woman not to take her man and is really "an innocent" song ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Two days after Johnson City eagles Boone and Jolene welcomed their first eaglet of the year, the man who built their nest reflected on his involvement in their lives.