Dolly Parton's famed ballad, "Jolene," was "loosely based on a little bit of truth" by a woman who had a crush on the singer's late husband, Carl Dean. Dean's death was announced by the singer on ...

Parton was 20; Dean was 23. He was one of the twin inspirations behind one of Parton’s most famous songs, “Jolene,” which she wrote after a teller at a local bank started to give her husband ...

She told him to knock it off. She later channeled her feelings into “Jolene,” a hit 1973 song. Her fans have been singing its haunting chorus ever since. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I’m ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Boone and Jolene, the two subjects of East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Eagle Cams in Johnson City, welcomed their first baby chick into the nest on Monday ...