Lately, she’s been promoting the adaptation of her song “Coat of Many Colors” as a faith-based TV movie that explores her humble beginnings.
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Parton sings her 1971 classic, “Coat of Many Colors”.
It too is a curiosity – a made-for-TV movie about poor country folk in the 1950s who grow tobacco (and smoke it too), dine on squirrel, and battle to maintain their Christian faith in the face of hardships that border on biblical.
What brought you into this project as a writer and executive producer?
“We thought that would make a wonderful movie”, Parton says.
“Well hello everybody!” wrote the indomitable “I Will Always Love You” singer. I was on a plane to Nashville the next day. She is a very natural actress and maintains Dolly’s sweetness and spunk easily. “She said, ‘I feel like I’m looking at myself all those years ago.’ She was pure magic”.
You’re dealing with a famous subject, but she wasn’t famous then.
It’s a spiritual tearjerker of a film, shot in Conyers and Covington over the summer, that focuses on the country legend’s childhood in 1955 in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains.
If only the words she speaks had even the least bit of credibility. The fourth of 12 children, she helped raise the five youngest after she moved to Nashville. “So be careful with her heart, Dolly”. “We’ve all grown up loving Dolly”, Anna’s mother, Wendy, said.
The fourth spot in the finals went to Team Gwen member Jeffery Austin after he sang his version of “Make It Rain” by Ed Sheeran, and America tweeted to save him.
Haskell noted that this was the acting debut for Nettles, who has been part of the hit-making machine duo Sugarland for many years though the group is now on hiatus. She saw beyond her poverty and her mountain home to the wide world that awaited her.
Love never fails. Faith, family, and love are the most important things in life. They lived an abundant life.
“We flirted with each other for 30 years, and it was much more electric”. So, never give up.
“Well, sure I am, Gran’pa, but do I have to look like hell to get there?” Since Jordan’s performance last night was undoubtedly the best out of all of his (and any other artists’) performances this season, I don’t think anyone was shocked by the result.
Dolly Parton performs on “The Voice” semi-finals.
“Daddy used to tell us”, Parton recalls in the above video, “that we lived so far back in the woods that Santa couldn’t find us”.
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Also in the cast: Ricky Schroder as Dolly’s father, Jennifer Nettles as her mother, and Gerald McRaney as her preacher grandfather. This throws the entire family, and it sends Avie Lee into a depression. And we, as believers, have allowed it. You know pretty much exactly where it’s going and how it will get there. Political correctness perhaps. So, maybe politics have become the new religion.
