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Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

• 1:33 AM · Aug 26, 2026

When the last time we have seen this type of outpouring for a person? Seriously? I just saw a Don King tribute to her, Chuck D, Eminem and the list goes on for miles.

She was truly amazing

7 minutes ago, Dewey said:

When the last time we have seen this type of outpouring for a person? Seriously? I just saw a Don King tribute to her, Chuck D, Eminem and the list goes on for miles.

She was truly amazing

Prince?

Dr. Drunkenstein?

Should have been jimmy carter

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Jack's a good guy. Accept the tribute for what it is, and don't worry about what it's not.

Jack's been singing that song for years. It was a staple of White Stripes shows. I saw him perform it with Meg in 2003 at Nokia in Grand Prairie. So maybe fuck off Deej.

Edited August 26Aug 26 by mdmost

She had so many great one-liners, but I just saw this one today:

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes, because I'm not dumb, and I'm not blonde, either."

2 hours ago, Dewey said:

When the last time we have seen this type of outpouring for a person? Seriously? I just saw a Don King tribute to her, Chuck D, Eminem and the list goes on for miles.

She was truly amazing

Couldn't find the direct video link... But this always makes me laugh

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/s/ZFBZVHgdBd

6 hours ago, Dewey said:

When the last time we have seen this type of outpouring for a person? Seriously? I just saw a Don King tribute to her, Chuck D, Eminem and the list goes on for miles.

She was truly amazing

It’s not something I like to think about but when Sir Paul passes, the whole world will come to a halt.

She could make anything sound good

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Dolly Parton performing her cover of the Collective Soul song "Shine"

❤️🕊

(📺:Austin City Limits, 2001)

• 1:48 AM · Aug 26, 2026

^^^ Of course Dolly would take a song that I really can't stand and turn it into something amazing.

It's sinking in for me today. A world without Dolly Parton is weird. Just an enormous hole that can't be filled.

I thi k people need to chill

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Fond memories of dear friend Dolly Parton immortalized from summit of Mt Paektu.

• 9:18 PM · Aug 25, 2026

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• 7:16 PM · Aug 25, 2026

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• Sky News @SkyNews · Aug 25, 2026

Country music legend Dolly Parton has died

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Three Voices, One Old Song, and a Nearly Perfect Moment

In 1976, on a simple stage lit by warm golden lights, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris sat side by side. Dolly held a guitar, her blonde hair glowing under the lights. The three of them began to sing “Bury

• 1:01 AM · Aug 26, 2026

The Iranian tribute is going to be epic.

Truly embodied grace and class. Her handling of Barbara Walters should be a class taught around the world. She stayed out of politics, choosing to accept and love. They don’t make them like her anymore.

May 12, 1977. Bottom Line in Greenwich Village. Her first performance in NYC. Belushi, Springsteen, Jagger and others were there.

Only Dolly could make Mick look starstruck.

I got sucked down an Instagram rabbit hole this morning watching dozens of tributes and clips of Dolly. More than a little dust in the air.

Edited August 26Aug 26 by TonyTexas

42 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

I got sucked down an Instagram rabbit hole this morning watching dozens of tributes and clips of Dolly. More than a little dust in the air.

This is the one that really got me -- Dolly reading Coat of Many Colors at the Library of Congress story hour:

Covering After the Gold Rush:

20 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This is a cover, but it wouldn't exist without Dolly.

This song came on in my car during a really tough time in my life, and I fucking sobbed like a goddamn baby. Good tears. It was the hope and perspective I really needed at the time.

Dolly was a living angel on Earth. One of the best of us. RIP.

What is it about this song? Sometime during Covid, I was walking through Rooms to Go of all places, and Mags Mccarthy's (Irish singer-songwriter) version was on one of their display TVs. I loved the song instantly, and like you, it was clearly a message I needed to hear at that point. Then I found out it was a Dolly Parton song, and it made even more sense.

The various military Glee club and band performances of this song are also well worth your time.

Edited August 26Aug 26 by capnamerca

I read an instagram comment somewhere that I thought summed up Dolly Parton perfectly.

"Some people feel less like celebrities and more like pieces of the world itself."

RIP to the absolute best of us.

14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Jane Fonda wrote a very nice tribute to Dolly yesterday. I'll see if I can find it again.

Got it:

15 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

I'm sure touring acts all over the world made sure to fit in a Dolly cover last night in tribute. This wasn't from last night but MMJ's Instagram account reposted Jim/MMJ and Neko Case doing "Islands in the Sun" from a recent show. It's pretty great.

19 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I thought of that line from Mad Men from Burt Cooper after Ida Blankenship died:

"She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut."

I don't think this has applied to anyone more than Dolly.

The great Tommy Tomlinson on Dolly:

The photo above is the Dolly Parton mural in West Asheville, North Carolina. There’s a story about it that I’ll tell in a minute. For now I wanted to mention that it’s the mural in West Asheville so I could distinguish it from the Dolly Parton mural in Indianapolis; or the Dolly Parton mural in Chicago; or the one in Ringgold, Georgia; the one in Costa Mesa, California; the one in Lexington, Kentucky; the one in Appomattox, Virginia; the ones all over Tennessee—Nashville, Knoxville, Pigeon Forge—or the one here in Charlotte, not two miles from our house. I’m sure there are more but I stopped scrolling the Dolly Parton mural image search so I could get down some words.

One way to measure who we love in this country is to see who we paint on the sides of buildings. I doubt there are many people painted on the sides of more buildings in this great land than Dolly Parton, who somehow died Tuesday at the age of 80, although death is an odd notion when it comes to Dolly, because obviously what she did and who she was will live forever.

I’ve told friends (and maybe mentioned on social media somewhere) that if there were a bubble that could protect anyone inside from war and death and disease—like the bulletproof limo that protects the president—the three Americans I’d put in there would be Dolly, Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen.

My friend Joe Posnanski called today when he heard about Dolly.

“What about Willie?” he said.

“He gets her spot,” I said.

“He wasn’t in there already?”

“Not sure there was enough room.”

Joe and his partner in podcasts and writing, Michael Schur, have a running bit where they refer to Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts as the greatest living American. Mookie Betts is in fact a great American. But there was no chance he was the greatest living American, not when Dolly was around.

She was a no-doubter on the list of greatest songwriters in popular music history. She was a brilliant singer and could play guitar, banjo, piano, fiddle and sax, all in 3-inch acrylic nails. She was a gifted comic actress and a Hall of Fame interview. She used her riches to become one of the great philanthropists of our lifetimes. She gave money to rural high-school grads and people whose homes were destroyed in the wildfires in East Tennessee. She helped finance one of the early COVID vaccines. And she has given away more than 270 million books to kids all over the world through her Imagination Library. One in seven children under the age of 5 in the United States gets a book every month from Dolly.

Here is her greatest gift: If you gave every category of people a circle in a massive Venn diagram—straight and gay, liberal and conservative, white and black, Asian and Hispanic, trans and cis, devout and atheist, old and young, billionaire and broke—Dolly is the place they all overlap. That doesn’t mean everyone loves her. It means more different types of people love her than they love anybody else.

Do you understand how hard that is? To make everyone feel welcome at the table and not come off as phony, or bland, or grasping for cash? Dolly is the universal icebreaker. You can wander into the grimiest biker bar, or the poshest country club, and know that someone in there loves “Jolene.”

I guess this is the time I should come back to that mural in West Asheville. The artist painted it in 2018. Three years later, he added a second figure:

Dolly and RuPaul. Bewigged icons. Kindred spirits.

But you could’ve put almost anyone there and it would’ve worked. Dolly belongs to everybody.

***

I’m sure a lot of you have spent these past few hours listening to your favorite Dolly songs or watching your favorite clips. I thought of the one from a vacation she took to Ireland back in 1990. The story goes that she decided to duck into an Irish pub just to see what one was like. She chatted with the regulars. She was not planning to perform. But the guitar player in the pub knew “Coat of Many Colors.” So she took the mic.

My favorite Dolly song changes all the time—if I had to pick at gunpoint, I’d probably take “My Tennessee Mountain Home”—but “Coat of Many Colors” comes closest to explaining how Dolly became Dolly. It’s the true story of the coat Dolly’s mother made for her out of scraps and rags, and how her schoolmates laughed at her, not understanding how much beauty could come from craft applied to love.

Dolly understood.

There is another story I think of now, the one about “I Will Always Love You.” You might know it’s the farewell song she wrote to Porter Wagoner when she left their professional (and some say personal) partnership to go solo. It was a no. 1 country hit when she released it in 1974. Elvis loved it and offered to record a version himself. There was one condition: Elvis’ manager, Col. Tom Parker, demanded half the publishing rights. Dolly stood to make a lot of money with even half. But for a songwriter, publishing rights are everything. And after all, she wrote the song. Dolly said no and cried all night.

In 1992, Whitney Houston covered “I Will Always Love You” and the single alone sold more than 40 million copies.

And Dolly said: “Now I can buy Graceland.”

Her story was literally rags to riches. She was covered in fakery from head to toe but every word that came out of her mouth was real. She was a bodacious flirt who was married to the same man for 58 years. She was funny as hell even as she sang of heartbreak and betrayal. She gave back so much, in the way that the truly wealthy should and almost never do.

Dolly Parton really might have been the greatest living American. She looked and sounded only like herself, and yet so many of us can see and hear ourselves in her—well, maybe not our current selves, but the version we hope to be.

Those rhinestones were mirrors.

The greatest living American

#303: The easy brilliance of Dolly Parton

Edited August 26Aug 26 by Beau Vine

13 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Narrator: "It was a little bit sexual."

She was one of the rare "universally loved" entertainer.

I'm sure there are more....Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman...Woody Harrelson?

Edited August 26Aug 26 by Tylerocks

1 minute ago, Tylerocks said:

She was one of the rare "universally loved" entertainer.

I'm sure there are more....Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman...Woody Harrelson?

No one touched Dolly as far as broad admiration across every possible spectrum and set of beliefs.

Acting: Also Denzel. Maybe Keanu.

Music: Willie and McCartney and Wonder

But even they aren't close.

I've seen accomplished people from every single arena pay respects, because she inspired them in their own fields: artists, activists, entrepreneurs, on and on.

She was, and still is, a force of nature.

"World Meteorological Organization should be ashamed!1!!1"

49 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

Music: Willie and McCartney and Wonder

But even they aren't close.

Yeah, um, if Paul McCartney died tomorrow, nobody would be talking about Dolly anymore. He paid her a nice tribute but the best thing he can do for her is to live another week.

post from Lou Barlow of Dinosaur, Sebadoh fame..

just a couple weeks ago I was at the Country Music Hall of Fame, been there a couple few times, this time Dolly Parton had the special exhibit spot , the one that greets u upon entering the HoF maze on the top floor.. anyway, I kinda breezed thru her constricting costumes (having her innard mashed like that for decades couldn’t have been healthy, dear lord) and shiny stuff but then I spied this item in the far back of a display case.. it’s the portable cassette recorder she captured her song ideas on in the early 70s.. Jolene, I Will Always Love You, let’s go ahead and say she laid down some proto Daniel Johnston level lo-fi heart rending perfection on this thing.. can you imagine? maybe some cute intros, false starts, ambient conversation.. Platinum level lo-fi.. on -this- machine.. I had to contort myself to find an angle as close as possible to it.. it should have been by itself on a g’dam pedestal in the middle of the f-in room g’dammit.. Dolly Parton’s Greatest Hits (the one with the -real- bangers and her looking like a farm maiden on it) was a constant throughout my musical life.. the poster from that LP smiled optimistically upon me as I recorded Weed Forestin’ in my cold blooded old times..I painted the word WAIT (in red) on it as a message to myself that some girl, someone, was waiting for me.. not Dolly incarnated or her cartoonish femininity but someone as deeply empathetic, intelligent and good natured as Dolly seemed to be.. her songs are miracles of plain spoken poetic beauty and texture.. she was an extraordinarily gifted vocalist of course but her songs were so deeply humble and precise that her stratospheric (to kitchen table) range never detracted from how spiritually grounded she seemed to be..DP ruled, rules..I’m sorry she wasn’t feeling well : / .. we definitely weren’t ready to let her go..

Man. That impromptu "Coat" in the Irish pub. She just left a trail of bucket list memories for all kinds of people over the years. You know Steve Cooney (guitar) thought of it that way. He was once married to Sinead O'Connor. That's a couple of world class singers, no?

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Dolly Parton, what a wholesome and wholly amazing woman.

Visiting Ireland, she popped into a pub owned by Kerry Gaelic football legend Páidí Ó Sé. She came for a pint but ended up singing - her Coat of Many Colours, which told the story of growing up in poverty in a Smoky

• 7:27 PM · Aug 25, 2026

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/26/why-dolly-parton-mattered-to-america?giftId=Mjg4ZTc1YzYtZjczMi00NDRiLThkZmMtM2FmZDJhNjQzOWNk&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Gift article link to The Economist's obituary.

14 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

It’s not something I like to think about but when Sir Paul passes, the whole world will come to a halt.

You misspelled Ringo.

This one hit me hard.

Feels like when John Prine left. But, it's harder to let her go.

I thought a lot about Rob Halford the last couple of days. Not the regular Nashville people. Rob fucking gay ass Halford.

Because she asked him to join her to sing 'Jolene' when they were being inducted in the HOF. He was a fanboy like the rest of us. He said she cleaned his beard. That's not phrasing.

National treasure. World Citizen. Exemplary human being.

Rest well queen

They played an old interview on Fresh Air today. In talking about her move to Nashville when she was 18, she added as a throwaway comment that she also moved 5 of her brothers and sisters there to live there with her. Put them through high school, etc.

On 8/25/2026 at 9:39 PM, HenryJames said:

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One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

• 8:18 PM · Aug 25, 2026

I was an extra in one episode of the show, and Willow randomly lifted her head as she was walking with an assistant, turned her head to the left, stared straight at me and then smiled from about 40 yards away, so this hits close to home.

(The outdoor college campus scenes were shot at an office park in La Brea, CA, for those who care.)

Very touching tribute from Buckingham Palace…..

On 8/25/2026 at 2:27 PM, cabowabo said:

I like Dolly as much as the next guy, but this is a little much.

It’s not. She made the world a better place and was an example of what America stands for. A country where you can be a female that came from the hills of Tennessee as one of 12 kids of an illiterate father, and The Land of Opportunity is truly that, to the point you can build an amazing career and empire and still give generously to millions of kids while doing it.

I know some of you absolutely cannot turn off your politics for one second because it’s literally the only part of your identity that has survived, but leave it off of this thread.

One of the best examples of being an American has passed. Flags at half staff are appropriate.

If Charlie Kirk, Billy Graham, Bob Hope and Rosa Parks deserved the honor, so does Dolly Parton.

Type her name in Google

14 minutes ago, msbesq said:

Type her name in Google

That was lovely

Nice tribute from Rick Beato:

2 hours ago, Earl Haffler said:

Nice tribute from Rick Beato:

If it's possible, she's even better than we thought.

https://www.threads.com/share/BBVJzvRepS/

Edited August 27Aug 27 by Post Oak

The TN governor says that the Nashville Airport will be renamed in her honor.
Seems like a fine idea to me.