4.6 • 17.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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We journey into the Dollyverse dimension: "Tennessee Mountain Home."Like all law abiding Tennesseans, Jad grew up with the song on a loop. He hadn’t planned to talk with Dolly about it, but much to his surprise, he is drawn into a Tennessee Mountain Trance. The trance opens a portal to many questions about country music, authenticity, nostalgia and belonging. And to a place called Dollywood. We visit the replica of Dolly’s childhood cabin and find thousands of other pilgrims similarly entranced. Along the way, we meet Wandee Pryor, who lived in a Dolly dreamworld as a girl. And also, halfway around the world, Esther Konkara, the self-proclaimed “Kenyan Dolly Parton,” who sings "Tennessee Mountain Home" as an ode to the hills of Nairobi - hills she has not yet left. The Tennessee Mountain home begins to seem like part of a Disney fairytale.But then, Jad and Shima get a call from Dolly’s nephew and head of security Bryan Seaver, who makes an irresistible offer.
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0:00.0 | This is Dolly Barton's America, I'm Chad Abumrod, |
0:02.4 | where at the third of nine trips into the Dollyverse, |
0:04.4 | this episode and the next, |
0:07.4 | this is where Dolly's story got kind of personal for me. |
0:11.8 | These two episodes are about a song |
0:14.0 | that really sort of hung over my childhood, like a mist. |
0:17.2 | Sitting on the front porch on a summer afternoon |
0:24.0 | in a straight back chair on two legs |
0:27.8 | leaned against the wall. |
0:32.9 | What's the kid to play in |
0:35.3 | wadging bugs on the string |
0:38.2 | and chase the glow and fireflies |
0:41.0 | when evening shadows fall? |
0:45.6 | In my Tennessee mountain home |
0:51.1 | life is as peaceful as a baby's side. |
0:55.9 | I feel like this song was always playing in Tennessee. |
1:02.9 | I remember once being sung at a football game |
1:05.4 | could be wrong, but certainly rocky top. |
1:08.5 | You'll hear 100,000 people singing it. |
1:15.7 | And I'll be totally up front. |
1:19.1 | You know, as the scrawny shy Arab kid |
1:23.0 | that hit high school during Gulf War I, |
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