Dolly Parton's musical story starts further back than most might expect — to the British Isles of the 1600s. That's where her ...

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 ...