In the Mix: Dolly Parton 1946-2026

Dolly Parton died in Nashville on Tuesday at the age of eighty, and this week In The Mix gives the whole hour to her — not to the wigs and the nails, which she deployed as a very effective decoy for sixty years, but to the thing she insisted on every time somebody credited the wrong one. She reckoned she wrote about three thousand songs, and she said flatly that it was the songwriting, not the…