In recent years, however, the two lanes converged, and ascended to a higher plane of celebrity. Fuelled by her Glastonbury triumph, her 44th album, 2014’s Blue Smoke, became her most successful ever in the UK, while Netflix followed a drama series based on her songs, Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings, with a loving documentary, Here I Am, and a seasonal special, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square. The hit nine-part podcast Dolly Parton’s America was predicated on the idea that she was a uniquely unifying figure in a divided nation. Even now that the discourse around music is often hotly politicised, Dolly Parton largely escaped being labelled “problematic”. She was worshipped by different sectors of her fanbase as a pioneering feminist heroine, a business phenomenon, an LGBTQ ally, a patriotic icon and a cultural ambassador for the working-class South.
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