Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans. And after four seasons of Biscuits and Jam interviews, I've got to say this one was a highlight.

Dolly Parton was last on the show back in 2020 at the height

of the pandemic, and we talked on the phone about her Christmas traditions, her childhood

in East Tennessee, and her incredible work getting millions of kids to read through the

imagination library. This time I got to sit down with her in person at her studio outside of Nashville,

and she hasn't slowed down one bit. She told me all about her latest album, Rockstar, which

features 30 rock and roll classics from covers like Prince's Purple Rain and Bob Seeger's

Night Moves to some powerful new Dolly Parton originals. She's also just released a new book

called Behind the Seams, My Life and Rhinestones, which documents more than six decades of

outfits, costumes, and iconic looks from her career in the spotlight. We'll talk about all that,

her taste in biscuits, and what it means to her to be Southern

on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Dolly Parton, welcome back to Biscuits and Jam.

Well, thank you. I need some more biscuits and jam.

So, Dolly, I've just got to ask you before we start, how do you like your biscuits?

I like them really well, and I eat them in any size, shape, or form.

So cathead biscuits or drop biscuits.

I grew up on cathead biscuits.

That's what mom said.

Somebody said, oh, why do you go on cathead biscuits? I said, because they're big. They're the size of a cat said in the country. That's what mom said. Somebody said, oh, why do you call them cathead biscuits? I said, because they're big.

They're the size of a cat said in the country. That's how people would call them cathead biscuits. A lot of people thought that it had something to do with a cat, but it was the size of the biscuit. Of course, you know that. And of course, I make some pretty ones. If I'm in a hurry, they're not so pretty, but they're always good.

And you're not above a canned biscuit either.

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