Little: A Happy Story from the Life of Dolly Parton

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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It makes me very happy to think of these three great artists taking such delight in their own powers, and persisting in their vision for years, until they finally got to do what they wanted—and made it a huge hit. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.3	As I may have mentioned, I have become obsessed with the life of Dolly Parton.
0:08.3	What a life!
0:09.6	Perhaps surprisingly, I'm not that interested in her music,
0:12.6	though there are a few songs I love, like Jolene,
0:15.1	but I'm more interested in her decisions and her personality.
0:19.0	And there is a story that I love from the life of Dolly Parton that I want to tell today.
0:24.2	And I have to say there's really no point to this story,
0:27.4	other than it makes me happy and I hope that it will make you happy too.
0:30.9	It's about the album Trio,
0:32.8	which Dolly Parton made with Emileu Harris and Linda Rohnstatt.
0:36.4	It was released in 1987, even though they'd had the idea for it many years before.
0:42.3	Here's Dolly Parton describing the idea for that album
0:45.5	in an interview she did with Oprah Winfrey.
0:48.3	Now that's an album.
0:50.5	I ever said,
0:52.7	it took you all eight years, it was eight years in the making, Emileu and Linda and you.
0:56.8	We came friends about, I guess, 12, 13 years ago.
1:00.3	And the first time we were together, we were in Emileu's living room.
1:03.3	And we just started singing some of the old gospel songs and country songs.
1:07.3	And we thought, boy, this sounds good.
1:09.7	Because usually it was the kind of harmony that only family usually can get.
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