Chapter 16

Positively Dolly

Dolly Parton, Songteller places the country icon’s songwriting at the center of her story

By Jacqueline Zeisloft | December 1, 2020

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics follows the country legend’s life and career from her earliest days growing up in Appalachia to her most recent creative ventures. Co-written by Parton and Nashville-based music journalist Robert K. Oermann, Songteller includes full lyrics to 175 of Parton’s songs, as well as unabashed anecdotes from the remarkable woman with the “Smoky Mountain DNA” who penned them.

Queen’s Rules

Late R&B legend Denise LaSalle always called her own shots

By Jacqueline Zeisloft | August 20, 2020

Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story offers a candid account of the life of the late R&B icon. This posthumous memoir, written with blues historian David Whiteis, also serves as an entertaining and boldly rendered look into the history of the musical genre LaSalle loved.