{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6ab0ef5d46fd9745eaa34bc4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Dolly Parton | It's Dolly Parton's World and We're Living In It | 1","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1789980419371-f892f122-f9d0-4f12-b7bc-fb88a135cc42.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Who says no to Elvis Presley — and is proved right eighteen years later?</p><p>How does a girl from a one-room cabin with no electricity work out the economics of music publishing before most of Nashville has?</p><p>And, in an age that agrees on almost nothing, how did Dolly Parton end up claimed by drag queens, evangelicals and everyone in between?</p><p><br></p><p>Peter Frankopan opens on the phone call that cost Dolly Parton an Elvis record, and Afua Hirsch traces what that refusal was really protecting.</p><p><br></p><p>Part one of two. Locust Ridge to Nashville, the Porter Wagoner years, and the moment a songwriter worked out that the leverage was never in the performance. Along the way: a theme park propping up one of Tennessee's poorest counties, a book scheme built for a father who never learned to read, and a working women's anthem that half the people singing it have never thought about. Underneath it all, a harder question — whether being loved by everybody is a strategy, and what it costs to hold on to.</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A's, fewer adverts and more.</p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>[0:00] Elvis wants the song. Then the phone rings.</p><p>[2:08] One room, twelve children, and a childhood with its own acronym</p><p>[5:33] Nashville the day after school finishes, and no plan B</p><p>[8:05] The double act that made her, and the goodbye song that ended it</p><p>[12:55] Half the publishing, one sleepless night, and a fortune left on the table</p><p>[15:11] 9 to 5: the most political song she never called political</p><p>[18:35] A theme park, 4,000 jobs and billions into East Tennessee</p><p>[26:07] Dixie, Black Lives Matter, and the edges of staying out of it</p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy:</p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast</p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions</p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas:</p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}