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<\/a> <\/div>\nJennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n When you think of classic rock music, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and Fleetwood Mac immediately come to mind. But now it\u2019s time to add another name to that list: Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n Yes, the queen of country who brought us hits like \u201cJolene\u201d and \u201c9 to 5.\u201d At 79 years old, Dolly has reinvented herself again, but this time as a bona fide classic rock queen.<\/p>\n Dolly Parton is more than just a singer or an actress. Her first love has always been writing songs. In fact, most of her biggest hits were written by Dolly Parton herself. She\u2019s also written other songs for other people, including \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d which Whitney Houston turned into a massive hit.<\/p>\n After decades of writing songs, Dolly Parton revealed that she\u2019s taking a break. She was a guest on Khloe Kardashian\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Khloe In Wonder Land<\/em> podcast this week. She said that a huge personal loss has made it impossible to write songs right now.<\/p>\n Her husband of nearly sixty years, Carl Dean, passed away<\/a> in March after a long illness. Dolly Parton has put all of her energy into keeping busy, including with an upcoming Las Vegas residency<\/a>.<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t have the emotional bandwidth to pen songs while grieving her late husband.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t do it right now because I\u2019ve got so many other things that I can\u2019t afford the luxury of getting that emotional right now. So there are times like that, things like that that will start here a little bit, but I\u2019ll write something else, though, if it comes. So I\u2019m just putting that all on hold,\u201d she said about taking a break from songwriting.<\/p>\n One of the many projects Dolly Parton did to keep her mind off her husband\u2019s death was to collaborate with a rock band<\/a>. She previously released an album of rock covers in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nDolly Parton Can\u2019t Write Songs Anymore<\/h3>\n
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Country Queen Is Now A Classic Rock Queen<\/h3>\n