“Smoky Mountain DNA” could only end with one song: “When It’s Family,” originally co-written by Parton and released as ...

Traveling back, the Owens family patriarch, her grandfather the Rev. Jake Owens, shouts the hymn “I Live in Glory” and her ...

She said something about Dolly Parton's music made it easy to do. "They almost sound like Welsh hymns, some of them," she said. They're very similar to folk and Celtic music, not just country.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton's musical story starts further ... which is centered in country, folk, hymns and bluegrass, spans a wide swath of genres, including a kind of soulful R&B performance ...