Tag Archives: Dolly Parton

Social Media Mavericks: Which Country Stars Have the Biggest Reach on Social Media?

Social Media Mavericks: Which Country Stars Have the Biggest Reach on Social Media?

We thought it would be interesting to crunch a few numbers to see which country stars have the biggest reach on social media. Taking into account an artist’s total number of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram followers, we compiled a list of the Top 20 country stars with the biggest social media reach. While total Twitter,…MORE

Dolly Parton Surprises Familes With Extra $5,000 in Wildfire Relief Funds

Dolly Parton Surprises Familes With Extra $5,000 in Wildfire Relief Funds

Queen of Country and Doer of Good . . . that’s Dolly Parton in a nutshell. When wildfires devastated Sevier County in East Tennessee in November 2016, Dolly was quick to act. In an effort to raise funds for the families affected, Dolly held a telethon—Smoky Mountains Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund—on…MORE

Higher Learning: University of Tennessee Offers “Dolly Parton Honors Class”

Higher Learning: University of Tennessee Offers “Dolly Parton Honors Class”

The University of Tennessee has finally recognized something we’ve known for years: Dolly Parton = higher learning. Since the Fall 2016 semester, Dolly has been the subject of an honors class—”Course-Work: Dolly’s America”—at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, which is about 30 miles northwest of her hometown in Sevierville, Tenn. The class is offered…MORE

Blake Shelton Wins 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Championship

Blake Shelton Wins 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Championship

In honor of college basketball’s craziest month, I created a bracket with 16 of the hottest acts in country music. I seeded them based on the strength of their current “season,” which ran from the ACM Awards in April 2016 to the Grammy Awards in February 2017. After more than 20,000 votes were cast during…MORE

Vote Now: 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Finals—Blake Shelton vs. Dolly Parton

Vote Now: 3rd Annual Nash Music Madness Finals—Blake Shelton vs. Dolly Parton

In honor of college basketball’s craziest month, I created a bracket with 16 of the hottest acts in country music. I seeded them based on the strength of their current “season,” which ran from the ACM Awards in April 2016 to the Grammy Awards in February 2017. After more than 6,000 votes were cast in…MORE

Watch Dolly Parton Strut Her Feathers as Animated Singing Chicken

Watch Dolly Parton Strut Her Feathers as Animated Singing Chicken

Dolly Parton has always been very “animated.” But today (March 13), she gave new meaning to the word. On today’s episode of Lily’s Driftwood Bay, Dolly voiced an animated chicken named Nolene, a famous country music-singing fowl who becomes stranded on Driftwood Bay. Lily’s Driftwood Bay is a preschool mixed-media animated show on Sprout, NBCUniversal…MORE