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Article: dolly gets back to her bluegrass roots; The Arts Dolly Parton's rediscovery of the traditional music of her Smoky Mountains home has reinvigorated her career.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2002
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Byline: JANE CORNWELL
Dolly Parton's rediscovery of the traditional music of her Smoky Mountains home has reinvigorated her career DOLLY Par ton cries on stage more often these days. Sometimes she'll be standing in the spotlight, singing bittersweet songs about her Smoky Mountains roots, picking away at a banjo with her hot-pink three-inch nails, when suddenly the tears will start to fall and, before she knows it, her cheeks are wet from weeping. "I'm such an emotional singer," she says in her breathy Southern twang, splaying the fingers of one hand across her heart and gazing out the window of her London hotel suite.
"If I've heard there's problems in ...