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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexis Petridis

Dolly Parton: Rockstar review – country legend’s first rock album is like endless karaoke

Too much of a good thing … Dolly Parton.
Too much of a good thing … Dolly Parton. Photograph: Courtesy of Butterfly Records. Photos by Vijat Mohindra.

Dolly Parton has done it all. She has asserted her primacy over the reactionary forces of Nashville’s music industry, sold 100m records, written umpteen classic songs, broken into Hollywood, opened her own amusement park and had a species of lichen, a Soviet battle tank and a cloned sheep named in her honour. It’s a delightful, fully deserved state of affairs, but it comes with a problem attached: what do you do next?

The artwork for Rockstar.
The artwork for Rockstar. Photograph: PR
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