Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Dolly Parton’s first interview with a major country music publication was conducted by Everett Corbin for Music City News in 1967. The headline on the front page of the September issue of Music City News declared Dolly Parton no dumb blonde. #2 Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Sevier County, Tennessee. She grew up on a farm between Knoxville and Gatlinburg. When she was about five years old, her family moved to a place called Boogertown. #3 I began singing when I was five or six years old. I was on a television and radio show in Knoxville called The Cas Walker Show. I sang on there during school vacations, in the summer, on holidays, and Christmas vacation. #4 My family consists of twelve children, my mother and father, and me. My father is a construction worker who works with a company that travels some. He doesn’t travel that far away from home, but sometimes he has to go two hundred or three hundred miles from home for a couple of months.