The DC Traveler

Country music legend and icon of platinum blondes everywhere, Dolly Parton will be hitting the stage at the Patriot Center in suburban Fairfax, Virginia, outside of Washington, DC.

Parton’s concert is a rescheduling of two March appearances (one at the Verizon Center) that she had to postpone due to troubles with her back.

The platinum-blonde with the down-home appeal, is on tour promoting her latest CD, Backwoods Barbie.   With a record 41 top-ten country albums, and more number one singles than any other female country singer, Dolly Parton probably belongs enshrined in Las Vegas, along with other notable American icons of entertainment.

Her style is mostly country with a bit of pop and folk.  But besides singing and have great roles in movies such as 9 to 5 and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dolly Parton’s other ventures, including her DollyWood theme park, the Big Wigs fan club, her Dixie Stampede Wild-West-like extravaganza dinner show (three locations), a film and television production company that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and her Imagination Library that delivers books to young children, proves that this is not just a singer and entertainer, she’s one smart business woman.  She even has a bright red rose named after her, The Dolly Parton.

Here’s an interview from the UK, where , as usual, Dolly tells it like it is.