Dolly Parton is an icon, to put it mildly. Just her name makes you think of the mark she left in music, love, and hope. She's more than a country music star.

Dolly Parton, 79, is opening up about navigating grief after the death of her husband, Carl Dean, 82, earlier this year. “I am a person of faith, and I truly believe that I’m going to see him again ...

On this day (April 25) in 1970, Dolly Parton recorded her first live album A Real Live Dolly in the gym of her high school alma mater, Sevier County High School. Parton brought Porter Wagoner and ...

A Lucy Adams-designed dress, with lace sleeves and skirt and a butterfly-shaped rhinestone design, which Parton wore at appearances on “The Dolly Porter Wagoner Show” and the cover of the 1974 ...

The album was also Parton’s first million-selling album, earned the star her first Grammy award win, and led to her film debut in the movie 9 to 5. The exhibit also highlights the 10-time Grammy ...

In 1966, the 20-year-old Dolly Parton married her boyfriend, a guy named Carl Dean. At the time, Parton was only just beginning her songwriting career. A year later, she found her first taste of ...

Album cover for "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, released in 1974. Donaldson Collection/Getty Images "She got this terrible crush on my husband," Parton told NPR in 2008.

Album cover for “Jolene” by Dolly Parton which was released in 1974. Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images Dean is survived by Parton and his two siblings, Sandra and Donnie.

"He's a big rock and roller," she said. The song "My Blue Tears," which was written when Parton was with "The Porter Wagoner Show" in the late 1960s and early '70s, is "one of my husband's ...

By MARIA SHERMAN, AP Music Writer. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82 ...