Another week, another major musical death to note here. This time, it's Don Everly, the remaining half of The Everly Brothers. I don't have as much to say about Everly as I did last week about Tom T. Hall because I'm not as huge a...
dolly parton
The musical criticism you want to read right now is Tressie McMillan Cottom on Dolly Parton. She has a long essay thinking of Dolly's enormous popularity in terms of race.
We are having another Dolly Parton moment. That's a good thing and she deserves all the love she gets. But here's the thing. Much of her music is terrible. Now,.
Dolly Parton reminds us about work and feminism.