Starting today you can hear song from country music legend Dolly Parton’s new career-spanning box set, Dolly, one week ahead of its official release.   It is available for free, on-demand listening now through October 27 at: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113940261

The preview features first listens to classic Parton songs and seven previously unreleased tracks. Each song is accompanied by anecdotes and reflections from NPR’s resident Parton fans.

The four-CD box set Dolly offers 99 songs from Parton’s five-decade career in music. The exhaustive compilation demonstrates that the country legend is equally adept at spinning old-school bluegrass tunes and belting out slick Nashville pop. A true icon even beyond her chosen genre, the performer is known for voluminous blonde wigs and over-the-top rhinestone dazzle that are only eclipsed by the enormity of her talent. It’s the ability behind the image, NPR’s Trey Graham writes, that makes her “one of the greatest singer-songwriters country music – and maybe the country – has ever produced.”

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