Author: Michael

Dolly Parton has been posthumously honored with the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026 — and she recorded a thank you message prior to her death at age 80 last month. “I am so honored to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. I mean, Roots Music — or what is now called Americana Music — is what I grew up playing back in the Smoky Mountains,” the country music icon said in Thursday’s clip. “It’s that same music that drew me back to East Tennessee back in 1997 to write and record my album…

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