Dolly Parton honors her roots: 'Country music is my gut, my heart, my soul'
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Dolly Parton talks about the future of country music and what it means to her to be a country girl in this exclusive interview.
"There'll always be country music," Parton said, "and there'll always be a few artists that are still influenced by the old-time Hank Williams type, all the Merle Haggards and all the, you know, the old country and even back farther, but certainly will say Hank Williams and all those wonderful songs he wrote. Even when new ones come along, they're singing all those great songs." Emily Trainham is an entertainment editor for Fox News Digital.
"So I think there'll always be country music," she continued, "because they're wonderful stories told about ordinary people and in even an ordinary way and ordinary things. But it gives you an extraordinary feeling that someone can do something that real and make you feel your life as country music does."