The stage at Jolene’s, the Dolly Parton–themed honky-tonk on East Fourth Street, is somewhat unconventional. A balcony that ...

The singer's hit song was released in October 1973, and was inspired by a woman who had a crush on her husband, Carl Dean, who died on March 3 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A Congolese singer, a Zimbabwean banjo player and a Mozambican bassist walk into an East Nashville bar. What follows is not a punchline, but the trio’s hypnotic opening salvo on “My Kind of Country,” ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Dolly Parton has continually put out hit after hit over the years — from "These Old Bones" and "If I ...

On Oct. 15, 1973, Dolly Parton released her now-classic song "Jolene." The No. 1 song (as of February of 1974) wasn't her first to reach the country charts' highest peak, but it did help launch one of ...

On the just-released Cowboy Carter album, Beyoncé included a melodically faithful but lyrically updated version of Parton's 1973 classic "Jolene." By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West ...

"She wasn't gonna go beg some other woman like I did," the legendary country singer said Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE, where she has been working since 2023. She previously ...

The threat of infidelity is the same, but how the two women negotiate it is a reflection of their age, race, and experiences of womanhood. It’s only natural that Beyoncé’s cover version would be ...

Don’t mess with Joy Behar, TMZ. The notorious celebrity gossip outlet was the center of a Hot Topic on this morning’s episode of The View as Behar and her co-hosts debated Beyoncé‘s buzzy cover of ...