Dolly Parton

Nashville nonprofit Maple Built has made portraits of the Notorious B.I.G., Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton throughout Music City.

“We have created an environment where young men are given the opportunity to learn how to work hard and make beautiful products worth being proud of. [video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTsiFag2TB/) shows the apprentices at work, gluing the small pieces on a large slab, gently putting them in place to create the masterpieces. photo is made from 6,000 pieces of wooden tiles by one of the apprentices, while Universal Music Group Nashville commissioned Maple Built to create a giant portrait of Strait that hangs in their corporate office in Music City. Parton’s picture can be seen in The Russell Nashville Boutique Hotel and the Nelson portrait was hand-crafted from 7,000 pieces of wood taken from the old flooring of the 506 Loft building in downtown Nashville where it now sits. “At Maple Built, we believe that success is a combination of hard work and opportunity and that there is no substitute for either,” the organization’s mission states. [Maple Built](https://www.maplebuilt.com), a nonprofit apprentice program that teaches young men the art of woodworking, has portraits all over the city featuring artists in a range of genres, from late rapper the Notorious B.I.G.

Sitting down on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Parton shared that back in 1986 in honor of the opening day of Dollywood, the theme park in her home state of Tennessee ...

“I have to honestly say, it was an odd feeling to be asked to write a song that nobody was going to hear,” she told Clarkson. It turns out that Clarkson has some experience with time capsules too, revealing that she gifted fellow The Voice coach Blake Shelton a time capsule on his birthday in 2021 and instructed him not to open it until his birthday a year later. I had to write this song that nobody was going to hear until then, and you have no idea how that has bothered me.”

Most recently, clips from Parton's appearance have yielded, as you can see below, an impromptu performance of the hit song “I Will Always Love You” by Parton ...

She and Clarkson commiserate about their love of food and their “up and down” weight (who among us can’t relate?!) and Parton tells the origin story of her song “Two Doors Down,” which is on her recent Greatest Hits album. Finally, Parton talked about writing the song “Two Doors Down,” while thinking about fried clams. Hear Parton tell the story and perform a snippet with Clarkson, below.

Dolly Parton is afraid items buried in her "dream box" will rot before anyone gets the chance to hear a secret song.

Bear with us. We're trying to name a more iconic duo than Dolly Parton and Kelly Clarkson and, well, we simply can't. The beloved country singer joined the ...

In case you missed it, Dolly Parton was a guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, and she and host Kelly Clarkson even sang a short, impromptu duet ...

[all made the cut.](https://twitter.com/lukecombs/status/1605697707456270337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605697707456270337%7Ctwgr%5E55089eaf927701a74d0ad19e530dc475a487ee2d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmt.com%2Fnews%2Fudk9cr%2Fluke-combs-reveals-a-long-running-list-of-country-music-albums-that-changed-his-life) [shared video of the process on TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@farmerbays/video/7177199884930501930?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7177199884930501930). You can

Back in 2009, Carrie Underwood hosted her Carrie Underwood: All Star Holiday Special, and invited Dolly Parton to come sing one of her signature songs with her, ...

Billboard Hot 100 chart, setting a new record at the time, when it became one of the best-selling singles of all time and the best-selling single by a woman. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart later that year, and then rereleased it October 1982, with a re-recording for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas soundtrack. It’s a classic in every sense of the word, and of course, Carrie was ecstatic to take the stage with one of her idols to duet what is probably one of the most widely-known songs of all time, saying in part: