The Bobby Bones Show - Remembering Dolly Parton

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

In honor of Dolly Parton’s passing, Bobby shares his final interview with one of the most beloved and influential country music artists of all time. Dolly reflects on the people who believed in her early, growing up in a full house in East Tennessee, finding her voice through music, and staying true to herself through decades of fame. She also opens up about marriage, legacy, hard work, failure, faith, and why she kept creating with the same energy and humor that made the world love her. This conversation is warm, funny, honest, and deeply Dolly — a chance to hear her in her own words, remembering the life she built, the lessons she carried, and the light she gave to so many. Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And so we were going to have a couple episodes up at this point of the Bobbycast and it just felt weird to not put something out about Dolly. And we had talked on the Bobby Bowen show a lot about her in our memories. But I wanted to play something. And so what I want to play for you guys

is the final time that Dolly and I were together. This is about a half hour plus interview that we did that I loved and she dedicated so much time, went out to her place, we did this. I don't know, it was just so cool. She was so cool. I was able to spend, I was counting last night, I think seven different occasions with her,

some for relatively long, some were show appearances, some. I know one specifically was when the fires hit East Tennessee, the Smoky Mountain area, and she did the telethon. I went up and helped with that and was just able to be around her a lot. as far as I was around her enough that she never wasn't that same person, which is kind of crazy because I think we all get in good moods and bad moods and, you know, hasty moods. But Dolly was always the same. She was so kind to everybody.

And to me, she was always so generous. So I wanted to play this. This is the last time that Dolly and I hung out. Rest in peace to Dolly Parton, the great Dolly Parton. Country music's going to miss her. 80 years old. I hope you enjoy the last interview that I did with Dolly. Dolly, I love you. I want to lead with that.

Okay. Thank you. I want to set that there. Well, I love you back. Would that be fair to say? Yeah, especially now. Oh, good. I think we've been there. We all love you. So a question.

I want to set it up first. I have a story that I do on my act where I talk about people that show up whenever you really can't, that they're to offer you something, but nothing in return. And I talk about Lionel Richie and how I was freaking out one day because Ryan's secrets, he got sick and had to miss Idol, so I had to go host it. with like four minutes before the show starts. He's never missed an episode. And here I am.

And it's not that I can't host a show, but the stage direction is such a big part about it. And I talk about how Lionel gets up, walks all the way across the arena. He's got to get back to his seat too and just gives me this real, hey man, hands on the shoulders. You can do this.

The Commodores did this. He didn't have to do that. Like Lionel Riches is famous, as nice, as cool as could be. He didn't have to do that. And so I talk about how amazing it is when people will give to you when they want nothing in real.

return. And so when I say a story like that to you, who comes to mind that did not have to be there for you, but was there? Well, so many people, I actually have more than one. In my early days, my Uncle Bill, who's the one that took me around because he saw my great potential, and he would take me around to shows and things. And even when my daddy didn't even want me to go, you know, getting out in the world like my Uncle Bill used to bring me down to Nashville in the early day, so he was definitely one of the people that didn't have to do it. He just saw that that was my dream and my desire. But there are many people, like in the business, many Pearl, when I first came to Nashville,

she called me over one day, and she said, Dolly, you're a right pretty girl. And it seemed like you've got, you know, a lot of talent, because I've heard some of your songs. She said, but don't let anybody ever tell you that you need to be this away or you need to be that away. You just be you. And she said, and don't let none of these old hairy-legged boys try to make you believe that you're not as good as they are. Because you can be whatever you want to be.

And she didn't have to do that. But she saw that I was about to do my number. And she did not want me to get caught up. And like some of the girls would just kind of do whatever they needed to do to get a break. But she saw something else in me. But she just said, don't do it. You just be you. and believe in your talent and believe in yourself.

Why do you think she did that? Because she's a good person. Like you said, people that are good tend to do good things. And I think that was probably Lionel's good heart that saw that he'd been in that spot before. And she probably had in her own time and in her own way been in that spot. We went to Italy, my wife and I, and I'm from a rural town in Arkansas. I never went out of the country until I started to have some success.

So now that we'll older, get to do some cool stuff, and we go, and they would have Italian music on in these places, but I ate so early because my schedule is pretty early. And they would turn on American music everywhere we went. And three of the four places, they turned on your music when we walked in. They assume every American, and it's probably right, loves Dolly Parton. Well, I'm sure every American don't. Yeah, I'm sure there are a lot of people who like slap me up inside of head, but I don't want to hear about them. It's a great compliment. But see, I've been at this a long time.

And I've been famous in Europe for years and years and years because of the songs that I used to sing and write like Cote of Many Colors. And people related to that. They knew that I was brought up in a family of 12 children. You know, kind of a mountain Cinderella story. And people related to my music. And so therefore, they related to me.

And then when I got to being on TV and stuff, People felt like they, you know, like they knew me. So it wasn't uncommon. A lot of my music was playing more overseas than it did here for a long time, you know, from my early records. But it's nice to be loved by anybody, anywhere. I was eating pasta, your music, though. Most places we went, it was you playing over the top or eating our pasta in Italy.

Does that make you happy or was you trying to get out of the country? No, it made me feel like I was at home, which is great. Oh. My set on my show, I have a couch and a couple lamps. And really, that's it because when I grew up in this, we grew up in a 900-square-foot house in Arkansas, I never had a bedroom. My whole life, I slept on the couch. And so my closet was underneath my couch. And it was literally everything was on the couch.

Never had a bedroom. And so that was what it was like, though, for me growing up and it's small house with a lot of people around. Your story, similar-ish. You're from a small town in Tennessee. What was home, like, for? for you growing up? Well, home was like full. There was a lot of kids.

We had, Mama had one kid on her and one kid in her, as long as I can remember, one on her hip and one growing in. But we lived in the house, you know, where we, and we didn't have running water unless we'd run and get it. And, you know, we just kind of washed in a wash pan and people say, how in the world did you take a bath that many people in the house? Because there were six boys and six girls in my family, ultimately. I mean, after we were all there, after mom had them all.

But people say, how did you take a bath? How did you have any privacy? I said, well, we had a little screen, you know, a little sheet. Mom would tie a string over there, and then we'd wash up as far as possible, and we'd wash down as far as possible. And when the boys cleared the room, we washed possible. Yes, yes, I do.

Well, it's basically like that, because it was about your privacy. because you knew when you could, you know, the girls had to do their thing, the boys had to do their things, mom make sure, you know, that we cared about such things as privacy and decency and all that. But when you're growing up, it's just natural growing up like we did. You learn the rules and you go by them. When you have all those brothers and sisters,

you have to somehow get attention for your, I mean, you're born into an environment of everybody. even indirectly seeking attention. You got a couple parents, 12 kids. I mean, is that where this performance, Gene, came from? Yeah. Well, my mother's people were all very musical. So music was always a part of our family. My grandpa was a preacher.

He also played piano and played guitar. So my people were the ones that sang at funerals and weddings and shindigs and anything around locally. Some of my relatives, somebody was always playing. But when I was young, my Uncle Bill and my Uncle Lewis were both, you know, they paid attention to me. My Uncle Lewis gave me my first little Martin, baby Martin guitar, because he saw how serious I was when everybody would come bring their instruments, we'd sit on the porch and sing. Well, I learned to play that little guitar, and that's when my Uncle Bill saw the great potential.

But I, when I was like, when I learned to play when I was like seven. So I started writing some serious songs. And then Mama was fascinated with how I could rhyme and write songs about stuff I'd never lived. But I'd hear them talk about people in the war, somebody sick, somebody this, just those old world songs they used to sing. So I would write all these songs. And when people would come to the house, Mama say, Rani, get your guitar.

I want you to hear what this little thing is wrote, you know. And so I would get my guitar and I would sing those songs. And so I saw right away that I was getting more attention. Because I have a sister and two brothers older, so I was fourth one down, and then there's eight younger. So I didn't get a lot of attention, but I saw I could get it. And I was one of those kids that needed a lot of attention. And I knew mom and daddy loved us all the same, but we didn't get picked up unless we was getting our butt busted or, you know, or sick or something. So that guitar and my music was my first entrance into getting the attention that I needed, and I'm still at it.

Yeah, I was going to ask, do you still crave it? I do. I think that's, but I crave it now because it fulfills what I feel is my true gift. You know, I love to write songs, and I've written tons and tons of songs through the years. But it's, I don't know that it's, well, I guess it is about attention. I just love doing it. And I just want, I want people to see that I can do it. I want them to appreciate what I am doing, that I have written these songs that I hope. are good I think we're good but that's for somebody else to judge but then when

they do judge me you know and I get I get the accolades from all that then I feel like I've done something great and so and I do crave that so I guess I guess attention is the best word for it don't you guess yeah I think I just was seeking love like I think that was it for me where I would go okay well I get a lot of love growing up because I don't have parents really and so I would go and perform or be funny and people would go like that I'm going to be like, wow, I'm liked. And so it didn't start working with me with girls until probably my 20s.

Oh. Yeah, and then I just got married a couple years ago. I've been married two years. So, thank you. Never been married two years in. So what's, but it's difficult because I already kind of had my ways wired. I was 40 when I got married. Well, yeah, does she have her ways wired?

Yeah, I mean, I feel, I feel like I'm way more wired, though. Oh, are you? Yeah, I'm almost 12 years older than her, so it's not a crazy difference, but it's enough of a difference. to where, like, she's still got some landing room to where I am who I am, I'm trying to not be that way. No, don't you not be, let her change. Don't you change? I've never heard anyone advise.

I've never heard anyone advise that. Okay, well, what, uh, well, you can't change. This is the greatest segment. Give me more advice like that. You know what? I've been with my husband for 59 years. He knew who I was when he met me, and I knew who he was. And, but we kind of, I was only 18 when we met and he was 20.

one. So we kind of grew up together. You know, we kind of learned each other as we went. But I saw who he was early on. He saw who I was. And he saw right away that I wasn't going to change much. But I was able to adapt. I think that word is better about adapting than it is change. You've got to adapt to certain things because you can't just have it all your way. I'm going to take her to that clip, though, of you saying she needs to change and cut the rest of of it out except that. Well, I don't think you need to, I don't know what he's like at home. I ain't her, but I'd like to be. But don't change. A similarity that I think your husband not known for being a super public guy. My wife does not like to be in the spotlight. Oh, my husband hates

it. He don't. He never was. So how do you, what does that balance? Because we struggle with that now. Because I, again, I need it to be successful. She does not want it. How did you guys do that? Well, my husband was a home body and he's very, he's very quiet and he didn't want to do anything but be at home. He's a home body. He's a cancer. You know, if you go by the signs, I'm Capricorn and he's cancer.

Those are compatible signs if you put any faith in that. But if you don't, and I don't to that degree, but he was, he loved being who he was and loved being left alone to do it. And I love being who it wasn't being left alone. don't do it. And so we just found ways, things that we did like together, and things that we enjoyed doing that was us. So maybe you be you and let her be her, and then you got to find some new things so you can, you know, you can be us. You can be, you know, who you are. Because that's the key of just trying to find that. You can't just, you can't just make somebody be what

you want them to be. They are who they are. I'm trying to make her be what I want to be. but she's also very strong herself. That's what I'm saying. You can't make anybody change. You've just got to make them want to do some things different. I'll be willing to. And if not, it won't last. And you can come live with me and my husband.

I will. I'll use this in court when I show up at your house and you guys try to pick me out. I said, yeah. But it's not easy. We've been together all these years. But like I say, somebody says, how do you, you know, what do you attribute your new? your long marriage show. I said, well, I stay gone. So maybe that's your answer. Do you guys have

just an example about my wife and I? I usually don't work three weekends in a row, meaning I'll work all week doing the radio show or shooting TV and I'll tour, but I'd really try hard not to do three in a row to for sure carve out that weekend. Like we try to set these little bench marks and pillars. Did you guys have any of that in your relationship early on so you didn't get lost? Because my time management skills are not great to do personal and private. Well, I hadn't become a star when I met my husband. I just came here to be one. And he knew that. And so he went with it. But did she not know that about you? She did. I think though when we we dated pre-COVID for six, eight months or so long distance, then COVID and I'm home all the time. Well, that's when you get

to know something. You know that old saying? You got to know each other. Yep. You don't know somebody until you have to live with them. So you got a poop real close to them. You know what I mean? That's what that's when you know who you really are. And that's how I knew I loved her. But then once work opened up, I'm gone again. And it's like I'm, and so I kind of tricked, I kind of hit her with the rope and doper. I tricked her. I was like, look how home I am. And then I'm gone all the time.

Don't you blame her false on COVID. So you both of you have to take the blame. Oh, it's all me. I've also learned that. So she said, right? It's all, yes, I've learned. It's all me. It's not all you.

I take it. I have to apologize for what she does in her, for what I do in her dreams. That's a thing now. Like she has a bad dream and I do something bad in her dream, then I have to. I better tick a lung or all. say too much. Well, you talk about fame. Like, what is it?

Fame. Well, I guess the word fame is after you, I think that word must have been invented after people were already stars, had to be. Because I think fame and success are not necessarily the same words. And successful in success are not the same words. You can't, you can be a success, but not successful. If you don't know how to enjoy it, if you can't enjoy it, if you don't appreciate it, if it doesn't work for you and make you happy.

Because that is, you know, money, as that whoever said it, money can make a man. But, you know, I mean, man can make money, but money cannot make a man. It's the same, you know, it's like you've got to. But fame, I guess that just means you've made it. And there you are, just like a star. But it's like that movie, Ryan Stone, there was a line in it that I was laughed at. A star is just a big ball of gas. And that's kind of what it is if you look at it like that.

So I guess what you tag it too. I feel like I'm famous meaning everybody. I think fame means that everybody knows who you are. You know, you're famous because everybody knows your name. And they'll see you on TV. But that still doesn't, should not make you a different person. Hang tight. The Bobbycast will be right back.

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I'm thankful that I'm successful. I always wanted to have money. I wrote a song called Sacrifice and says, I was going to be rich no matter how much it took. Say, I was going to be rich no matter how much it costs. And I was going to win no matter how much I lost. I lost. You know, and that to me, those two lines, you know, it's like if you're willing to sacrifice all through the years, I kept my eye on the prize, you know, and you ask if it's worth

a sacrifice, but you don't, you know, it's like empty or full, you know, I've carried my pail, but you don't drink the water if you don't dig the well, you know, it's like all those things you, I think that I'm the same person I always was. I'm just more relaxed now, I'm more comfortable because I can afford to be. That's what you were saying. I couldn't afford to be myself. Just like when I started cutting, I had to wait. I never could make money, big money singing bluegrass, and I love bluegrass.

And so when I did my bluegrass out, I said, I had to get rich in order to sing like I'm poor. You know? It's like you kind of, you could look at things like that. But I guess everybody has their own version of what they think fame and stardom is. I'm a celebrity. but all those words like celebrity star, you know, and fame, they're just words that tag to people that hopefully that have become successful at what they're best at.

And if you're, like I said, if you're a true success, that means you should be able to enjoy it. Do you enjoy it? Yeah. When did you start being able to enjoy it? Well, when I quit being able to enjoy it, I'm going to quit altogether. Now, there are times I get stressed out because there's so much you have to do that you just get, you know, you're just burn out, you just beat.

Then you think all kinds of things, well, you know, maybe it's time. You know, maybe I should do this and do that. But, I mean, you're up the next morning, think about something you want to go do. You can't help it if that's who you are. You know, it's like my song. I wrote a song called Whatever You Are, Be That. Whatever you do, do that.

Because anything else is just an act. So whoever you are, be that. So if you're a comedian, be that. If you're a DJ, be that. Whatever you are, that's true to you, and that's how you express yourself. We don't have to make ourselves over or allow somebody else to make us over. We need to be who we are and find ways to make that work for us. I've found that if I lie or fabricate a story, it's not that I'm too good for.

I just can't remember it all the time. So I try not to. So I don't. I just try to tell the truth and be as honest as I can. Not because I'm too good to lie, because I would love to lie and remember it. because this is more entertaining, but I can't remember it. So stay honest. With you, I feel like that's been a big part of who you are.

It's just honesty at all costs. Was that always the idea with you? Well, I don't even know. I don't think about it like that. I always say, all my lies are true. No, it's like I think sometimes you have to make excuses that might turn out. You, like a lot of people might say that that's a lie. But usually it's an excuse.

you have to make, you have to bend the truth, mostly, to spare someone else's feelings. So white lies are okay. But for myself, well, I'm not saying a lie is okay. I'm just saying sometimes... When you say I come to your house, that's a lie. When I what? When you say I can come to your house and live with you and your husband, that's a little... That's a lie.

Right, that's my point. Yeah, see? That's what I'm saying here. But my good heart would allow you to if you needed to. Okay. If you needed to come. Okay. Of course, I was saying it to be funny.

But my good heart would welcome you into my house. So I guess that's when you're successful. If you appreciate what you've got and be able to help somebody else with it. The album, Rockstar and the book, behind the seams, they are both so new. Meaning, you put new songs on an album. You didn't have to do that. You could have just done these amazing songs with these amazing artists. and do your version of it.

Same thing with a book. It is a book of something you've never released before. Your fashion. Fashion. You have created fashion for so many people. So why keep on pushing as hard as you do? Oh, well, I'm not pushing. That's just, I want to leave things.

Like we were talking earlier before we went on the air about working so hard, but I feel like I've got to make a haywell of sunshine. I'm 77 years old, and I've done a lot in my time, And I'm thankful for every bit of it. But there's stuff out there that I want to have my hands on to be part of my legacy. I want to be part of all these things that I know, somebody's going to cash in on when I'm dead. So why not make it right?

Why not do it and why not do it great? Well, certainly with the book. I had a book called Songteller, and it was all about my songwriting. Why I wrote songs, how I was feeling when I wrote the song, what inspired them, what period of, you know, in my life I was in. And so this one is behind the seams, and it's about who can tell my story better than me? I know those feelings. I know those thoughts.

I know the pain and the sorrow and the joy and the fun of all of it, and the people and the jerks and the, you know, everything that has to do in my life. Nobody can guess that. You might guess at it, but you're not going to know. So I'm doing that because I want to get as much stuff out as I can with as much quality as I can. so it don't just get counterfeited when I'm dead and gone. And I've got, my next book is going to be called Star of the Show. It's like a three, you know, the songteller, behind the seams, and the one I'm calling the Star of the Show, which is the name of one of my songs.

And it's about my life on the road, the musicians, the travel, the hotels, the craziness and all the stuff. So I want to tell those stories. I don't want somebody else to tell them. But anyway, getting back to what you're saying, I'm the kind of person, I have to be busy, and I can tell, and you're the same way. I've got a lot of energy, and if I didn't use that to be creative, I'd just turn that in on myself, and that'd be dangerous.

Or I'd turn it in on somebody else. That would be worse. So I think that if you're creative and you have these thoughts, you have to just keep on doing it. And, you know, it's like, I can't even imagine, just quitting. That's why I say I'll never retire. I might have to quit if my husband got sick and I need to be with him. And if I was ill, you know, it would have to be a serious illness. You know, I'd have to, you know, I'd still be right.

And if my right arm worked, you know, if my arms worked, I could still write. But I just want to do everything I can because it won't always be this way. I won't always have this opportunity. And God's been good to me and people have been good to me. And I get scared sometimes when everybody tries to put me on some sort of a problem. pedestal. I think, God, don't put me up there. All you can do is you knock me off. You know, I'm not all that. You know, I talk about things like I'm not an angel. I just play one on TV and that's the truth. So I'm a lot of things, but when I try to be mostly,

is a good person and try to be creative and try to be good to others. Final three questions. I have a lot of people that will be watching this and they're watching because they want to laugh and have a good time, but hopefully to be in the inspired to just, you know, commit to being better. If it's a mom, if it's a dad or a better fireman or a bank, or working a bank, and it's just committing to it. A lot of people have trouble just committing to it because of the fear of failure.

And I have to imagine that someone that has all these successes, as yourself, has had a fair share of pretty big failures too. Well, we all have failures, but you don't look at it like that if you're a smart person. Because even just like when I had my variety show years ago, it was entitled to be going to be this or that, and I got a ton of money for it, which they had to pay me for anyway, even though it didn't last.

But I was disappointed that it didn't work, but it didn't work for all the reasons I knew it wasn't going to work when we started it. It wasn't me. I couldn't be me. They were trying to revamp the old variety shows, and I'm just a one kind of person. I'm just me. And if we can work off of me, I can make it successful.

But if I try to go outside of my comfort zone, I never can make it work. But I learned so much about that show. You learn what you should not look at it like a failure, but as a stepping stone. I learned so much from that of what not to do, what not to allow to happen next time, that even in other shows I've done since then that I've produced or worked in, I've learned from that. So everything is something you can learn from. It's just a stepping stone.

And so I'm even, you know, I really am almost glad that it didn't work because I didn't want to continue. I was under stress with it because I wasn't happy doing that. So as it was, I could have still been on the air if they'd let me, you know, do more of know who I am. But we all have those things in our lives. And we're all, you know, it takes a while to overcome it. You know, you're embarrassed by certain things and all that. But if you're the right kind of talent and the right kind of person,

you'll just take that as a good lesson. Which, by the way, I'm going to do a comedy album these days since you're having a comedy show. That's going to be one of my next things. People have always said. Your songs are super funny and witty, like even the ones you don't mean to be funny. Yeah.

What do you think is the most clever line, the most clever couplet rhyming line that you have in your song? I just think that one I just said, you know, I was going to be rich no matter how much it cost. And I was going to win no matter how much I lost. Or one of my favorite lines in the songs I've written is a cup of ambition. You know, I get excited about those kind of things. But I don't know. I can't think right off top of my head, but a lot of my songs are, have a lot of comedy,

but I want to do a stand-up comedy album. someday because I like being funny. Me too. I just wish I was... Well, you are funny. I want to say you are funny and you are good and you are capable of so many things and you are so liked. I start crying. This is not even about me. I know. Let me just say this. I don't like compliments or tough for me. But you're a DJ. Let me just say a lot of these people that watch this

you know, they'll be all over the world, all over the country. But you, we think of you as like a local boy. And here in Nashville, I mean, you are just fantastic on the radio. Everybody loves the Bobby Bow Show. I mean, it's like, we can get up to do it, you know, Amy and all the people you have on the show. But, and then when you go out and do some of these shows, like American Idol, and just, you just have a spirit and an energy and a little, I don't know, you've just got magic

somehow. And I think you're good. and I think you ought to just be allowed to be good. I don't need any more questions after that. I think we're going to end on that. And I'm not even going to play any other other interview, just that last segment over and over. Well, we like you here.

You're a local boy to us. Thank you very much. You are the best. Thank you for the time and the inspiration to so many and for letting me fond all your jewelry here on the side. Get off of me. You got to come to mine in Carl's house, and he's got to give you permission.

You told me at the beginning I had permission. All right. Thank you, thank you guys. Back to you guys. There's nobody there. I'm just pointing. Okay. Thanks for listening to the Bobbycast. Share this episode with a friend because they don't pay to advertise us.

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