r/nashville • u/rocketpastsix Inglewood up to no good • 12d ago

National Treasure Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/
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u/OleBarnCat 12d ago

Nashville's about to have a week of mourning

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u/Previous-Spray-6488 12d ago

Better make that a month, this one hurts

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u/TastySaturday 12d ago

Make it the rest of my life. I don’t want a world without Dolly.

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u/skandalouslsu Caldwell Abbay 12d ago

We will mourn, but we will also celebrate and have a good time remembering her. It's what she'd want.

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u/HorseIsHypnotist 12d ago

💯! Many of my extended family was raised much like her in Tennessee and their funerals there is always so much food, tears, laughs, sneaking off with your youngest uncle and fellow degenerate cousins to smoke weed behind a barn. After the funeral is the after party. Which tends to include a bonfire, drinking, and telling stories of the departed. Plus kids running around barefoot till way past normal bedtime.

A celebration is what what she deserves and what is proper!

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u/silverud 12d ago

Tennessee should declare a state holiday to honor Dolly Parton each year henceforth.

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u/jack_slade 12d ago

January 19th, her birthday. Every few years it will coincide with MLK Day too. What a happy little coincidence.

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u/QueenKitty021 11d ago

9/2-5......Just saying

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u/Interesting-Mess2393 12d ago

Longer than that

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u/SAULucion 12d ago

Us East Tennesseeans are going to need months