Ever wonder what "Jolene" and "Proud Mary" sound like on the ukulele? Listen as the Fayetteville Ukulele Club perform the classics.

The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in which she begs the beautiful title woman not to take her man, was inspired by a real bank teller's interactions with her ...

Jolene Marie Smeltzer, 78, of Lancaster passed away on February 15, 2025 surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Roaring Spring, PA to the late Robert and Rozella Miller and spent most of ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82. According to a statement provided to The ...

Dean also inspired one of Parton's biggest hits, "Jolene." The story for the song came from a bank teller who had a "terrible crush" on her husband, Parton said in a 2008 interview with NPR.

Parton, who met Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat the day she moved to Nashville at 18, has previously told NPR in 2008 that she wrote the song Jolene about a flirty bank teller who seemed ...

CAPO (45D: Key-changing guitar gadget) A CAPO is a clamp-like device that is attached to the neck of a guitar (or other stringed instrument such as a ukulele or banjo). The CAPO shortens the ...