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...burned-lover syndrome seems to haunt many of the female solo acts in the rock world today. Bonnie Raitt, probably the best of them all, fairly thrives on this image. So do Dolly Parton, who provides some nice background vocals on this album, and the majority of female country singers. This may be the result of sexism in the music world...
When he came to the U.S. from Austria eight years ago, Body Builder Arnold Schwarzenegger got hooked on country music-and Nashville Star Dolly Parton. Invited by Photographer Annie Leibovitz to join Dolly in a picture-taking session for Rolling Stone, Arnold rushed back from a visit to Israel to oblige. The two got along so well that they finished off six bottles of champagne between poses. Dolly, 31, who admires musclemen "for their spunk and endurance," was very impressed with Arnold. Arnold, 30, found Dolly "the nicest weight I have lifted in a long time." Says...
...would eat at the counter with the band?" Guitarist Rod Smarr is talking about the big little blonde on the stool waving back at the truckers. She looks like something Andy Warhol might have created in homage to both Marilyn Monroe and Mae West. She is in fact Dolly Parton, the reigning queen of country music...
...Pink. A Dolly Parton concert is a treat, like a hot-fudge sundae after a month of dieting. As the lights come up, the band tears into Jackie Wilson's old rhythm-and-blues specialty Higher and Higher. Dolly is backstage strutting about, slapping her thighs, her hands, an amplifier, anything. Suddenly, on cue, she leaps onstage and takes Higher and Higher even higher...
...Lord, with a rowdy spin of styles - country, rhythm and blues, rock, reggae, torchy ballad - fused by a rare and rambling voice that calls up visions of loss, then jiggles the glands of possibility. The gutty voice drives, lilts, licks slyly at decency, riffs off Ella, transmogrifies Dolly Parton, all the while wailing with the guitars, strong and solid as God's garage floor. A man listens and thinks "Oh my, yes," and a woman thinks, perhaps, "Ah, well...