Music for Grownups: Dolly Parton at Radio City Music Hall

By: Richard Gehr | Source: AARP.org | 2008-05-06

From her elaborately sequined denims to her sky-high hair and admitted surgical attention to "anything that bags, sags, or drags," it sounds as though it takes work to be Dolly Parton. But judging from the gusto with which the 62-year-old singer-songwriter performed at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall on May 1—and her preference for dying onstage ("hopefully in the middle of a song I wrote") rather than ever retiring—it looks like it's also a lot of fun being Dolly Parton.... Back to Article