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Remembering A Country Music Icon With Whom Dolly Performed

Photograph Source: Mercury Records – Public Domain

Dolly Parton represented a golden age of country music which included Johnny Rodriguez, Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Barbara Mandrell, Don Williams and countless others, many no longer with us.

One legend, with whom Dolly performed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was Tom T. Hall, remembered as the “Storyteller.”

Hall, who died in 2021, is usually remembered for writing “Harper Valley P.T.A.” which became a hit for Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Admonished for wearing miniskirts, the mother in the song outs her very hypocritical attackers. (“And Mr. Baker, can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town?”)

But Hall had other sage and inimitable songs like “Old........

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