Dolly Parton began working with Porter Wagoner in 1967. She’d already been working on music at this point, but the spot on his show lifted her career to new heights. Wagoner said that hearing one song ...

Dolly Parton’s songwriting was one of the things that made Porter Wagoner start paying attention to her. She recalls memories of her own childhood and invents stories and characters with whom the ...

However, the segment with Wagoner and his band fittingly took place at the Ryman Auditorium–the Mother Church of Country Music. The episode aired two months later, on April 16. Dolly Parton and Porter ...

Fifty-two years ago today, Dolly Parton released an album that contained two massive hits and launched a new era of her ...

Dolly Parton has opened up about her complicated relationship with her early mentor, country star Porter Wagoner. The music icon was just 21 when she joined Wagoner’s variety television series The ...

Years after their partnership fell apart, Dolly Parton found the words she couldn’t say out loud, writing a heartbreaking goodbye to the man she never stopped loving. Parton's iconic tribute to her ...