A True Icon: Remembering Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton died this week at 80, and Matt — by his own admission not a devoted country fan — found himself moved to pay tribute, because if the word “iconic” means anything, it means her. This is a warm, reflective episode about a woman who transcended party, region, and genre, and who over many decades built something almost no one else could: a sprawling business empire that never once drifted…