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Dolly Parton's America: Neon Moss

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4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today on Radiolab, we're bringing you the fourth episode of Jad's special series, Dolly Parton's America. In this episode, Jad goes back up the mountain to visit Dolly’s actual Tennessee mountain home, where she tells stories about her first trips out of the holler. Back on the mountaintop, standing under the rain by the Little Pigeon River, the trip triggers memories of Jad’s first visit to his father's childhood home, and opens the gateway to dizzying stories of music and migration. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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You're listening to Radio Lab.

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Radio Lab.

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From W. N. Y.

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C.

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See?

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I'm Jad. this is Radio Lab.

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So we've been on a bit of a trill lately over here.

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Me with my series about Dolly Parton and also at Radio Lab looking at different kinds of music,

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you know, sort of examining different genres of music and asking where do they come from,

0:38.2

where do they go, who do they speak to, and why, all of these sorts of questions.

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And today, I want to play you one more of the stories from the Dolly series because I think

0:47.4

it speaks to this same set of questions and maybe even completes the thought.

0:53.1

And by the way, if you haven't heard the series yet, go to dollypartonsamerica.org if you like. I would certainly love it if you do. You can check it out also on Apple Podcasts. There are four episodes up there. So let me just give you a little bit of context on what you're about to hear. In the last episode of the series, this would be episode three, the one before, the one

1:11.9

you're about to hear. We zeroed in on one of Dolly's real southern anthems. It's called my

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Tennessee Mountain Home. I was very surprised to learn that this Tennessee specific song

1:24.2

speaks to so many different kinds of people, very different backgrounds and places.

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In episode three, we went to Dollywood to see a replica of Dolly's Tennessee Mountain home.

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