Dolly Parton: Another candle in the wind
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- Dolly Parton left rural Tennessee for Nashville in late spring 1964, one day after graduating from high school.
- The article presents her departure from the Smoky Mountains as the beginning of her journey in country music.
In late spring 1964, just one day after graduating from high school, a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and said goodbye to the life she knew in the Smoky Mountains of rural Tennessee.
Her destination was Nashville, the undisputed Mecca of country music. She left behind the two-bedroom cottage that had been her home and set out toward the city that would define her musical path.
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