While not straight from the hills, Dolly was breaking in, married and 21, compared to 40-year-old man-of-the-country Porter, when she started on his show. They sang duets, but I'd hold they stuck to singing.
Also, those lyrics aren't about the kind of protagonists I find in the best of hardboiled/noir. They seem more like true crime melodrama types. Just my opinion.
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@...> wrote:
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> From what little I've read about their relationship, I think it was more the other way around.
> Mark
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> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> > From: abrasax93@...
> > Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:55:44 -0700
> > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled country
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> > Porter Wagoner is also credited with "discovering" Dolly Parton. I guess she taught him the cold, hard facts of life.
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