Dolly Parton Accepts Americana Lifetime Achievement Award In Video

Dolly Parton received a special award for her lifetime of music.

The award came from the Americana Music Association.

She accepted it in an emotional video.

Parton said she grew up playing roots music in the Smoky Mountains.

She said this music is now often called Americana music.

In 1997, she returned to East Tennessee to make an album called Hungry Again.

She said that album helped start more bluegrass and acoustic albums.

Those albums changed her music career in important ways.