Growing up poor and raised by a single mother, Merle Haggard also connected to the song, and months before ... Decades after his first crush on Parton, the love was still there for Haggard.

Frontman Ryan H. Walsh explains: In our band, we have a genre of song that we sometimes like to mess around with that we’ve titled Dirtbag Rock. “Crush All Night” is a great example of a ...

“She got this terrible crush on my husband,” Parton told NPR ... So it’s really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one.” The name Jolene, meanwhile, came from a ...