The Only One For Me, Jolene

Dolly Parton's America

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Music History, Nashville, Music, Tennessee, Society & Culture, Parton, Documentary, America, Dolly

4.6 • 17.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

One of Dolly’s most iconic and successful songs is “Jolene,” a song that, at first listen, is about a romantic rival trying to steal her man: a prime example of the classic “cheating song.” But some see it as flipping a popular country music trope on its head. This idea takes shape when Nadine Hubbs, a professor at the University of Michigan, writes a fourth verse to “Jolene," which makes us reimagine Dolly's songs in entirely new ways.

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0:00.0	Are you ready to do this?
0:01.2	I'm ready.
0:02.1	Okay, let's do it.
0:03.1	I guess, I'm okay.
0:04.8	Okay, so I'm gonna introduce the thing
0:06.8	and then I'm gonna hand off to you.
0:07.8	Is that's all right?
0:08.7	Oh, you're actually using that I'm ready?
0:10.1	Yeah.
0:11.0	Oh, sh**.
0:11.8	I wanna keep, we gotta keep a loose, yo.
0:13.4	Oh my gosh, okay, I'm breathing.
0:15.8	Okay.
0:16.6	Okay, I'm Chad Ibu Moron, this is Dali Parton's America.
0:18.8	I'm Shima Oliai.
0:19.9	Shima is producing the project with me
0:21.6	and S is episode six.
0:23.6	Sixth journey.
0:24.8	Let's start this one by jumping back for a second.
0:28.1	To the beginning, to the thing
0:30.3	that first grabbed us about Dali.
0:32.1	Here we come again.
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