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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4835889, member: 153"] The only thing I will say about Parton is that many of her songs started country rock and she has always been on the ground of folk/country. I got myself in a big jam at dinner a few months ago with a country music expert who laughed at me for assuming country came out of the south and folk music. She said it's a typical thing to say. Apparently what we know as country came out of California and has entirely different roots than we assume. Parton plays a big part, but it's not her Tennessee/folksy hillbilly that is the influence. [/QUOTE]