My Favorite Hillbilly by Jonathan
My favorite Hillbilly is really a Hilldolly. Dolly Parton, that is. With her distinctive mountain soprano and breasts designed to mimic the scenic view from her Tennessee Mountain home, Dolly Parton is truly a Hillbilly treasure. She's a walking monument to the tenacity, endurance, and beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains. Over the course of her 40-plus-year career Parton has descended (literally) from her dirt poor childhood to the (figurative) top of the entertainment world with top 10 pop hits such as "Nine to Five" and starring roles in major motions pictures like Nine to Five. She's written about a bazillion songs, many of them good, a few of them indispensable, and she has persevered through many hardships, heartbreaks, and cosmetic surgeries with grace, humor, and poise. It's easy to find things not to like about Dolly Parton. She plays the role of the ditzy blonde a little too well and, in keeping with Hillbilly ideas of glamour and showmanship, her appearance (boobs, botox, etc.) often borders on the grotesque, but the depth and sophistication of her best songs and the self-effacing humility and genuine good will that she exhibits in her public appearances make it well-neigh impossible not to like her. But to truly appreciate Dolly Parton, you must appreciate ALL of Dolly Parton. You can't have "Jolene" without Dollywood. Well, you can, but you shouldn't. Dolly Parton is all of one piece. She's arty and kitschy. She a down home yokel and a sophisticated folk singer. She's the embodiment of what happens when dirt poor isolation becomes mainstream and, as far as I can tell, she's never pretended to be otherwise. So, yeah. My favorite Hillbilly is Dolly Parton.
My favorite Hillbilly is really a Hilldolly. Dolly Parton, that is. With her distinctive mountain soprano and breasts designed to mimic the scenic view from her Tennessee Mountain home, Dolly Parton is truly a Hillbilly treasure. She's a walking monument to the tenacity, endurance, and beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains. Over the course of her 40-plus-year career Parton has descended (literally) from her dirt poor childhood to the (figurative) top of the entertainment world with top 10 pop hits such as "Nine to Five" and starring roles in major motions pictures like Nine to Five. She's written about a bazillion songs, many of them good, a few of them indispensable, and she has persevered through many hardships, heartbreaks, and cosmetic surgeries with grace, humor, and poise. It's easy to find things not to like about Dolly Parton. She plays the role of the ditzy blonde a little too well and, in keeping with Hillbilly ideas of glamour and showmanship, her appearance (boobs, botox, etc.) often borders on the grotesque, but the depth and sophistication of her best songs and the self-effacing humility and genuine good will that she exhibits in her public appearances make it well-neigh impossible not to like her. But to truly appreciate Dolly Parton, you must appreciate ALL of Dolly Parton. You can't have "Jolene" without Dollywood. Well, you can, but you shouldn't. Dolly Parton is all of one piece. She's arty and kitschy. She a down home yokel and a sophisticated folk singer. She's the embodiment of what happens when dirt poor isolation becomes mainstream and, as far as I can tell, she's never pretended to be otherwise. So, yeah. My favorite Hillbilly is Dolly Parton.
