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Finding Another Way (2020)

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The Relationship Between Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton

In 1967, she joins his band. He is the biggest thing in country music. She is a backup singer and nobody. Within a short time, she gets huge for this Dolly part. And so I was asking her a lot of questions about the middle part of their partnership when things started to go bad. You could never untangle all of that. Porter and I had a love-hate relationship. So don't just pretend it was one thing.

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