Archive · 18 Sep 2026
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.
Dolly Parton accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.
The acceptance appeared in a teary video described in the article as posthumous.
Parton said Americana music grew from the roots music she played in the Smoky Mountains.
She linked her return to East Tennessee in 1997 to writing and recording Hungry Again.
Parton said Hungry Again led to a series of bluegrass and acoustic albums that changed her career.
- Who
- Dolly Parton accepted the award from the Americana Music Association.
- What
- She received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Americana and roots music.
- When
- The article does not specify when the award was presented; it says Parton returned to East Tennessee in 1997 to make Hungry Again.
- Where
- The article connects the music to the Smoky Mountains and East Tennessee.
- Why
- The award recognized Parton's lifetime contribution to Americana music.
- Recipient
- Dolly Parton
- Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Presenter
- Americana Music Association
- Music tradition
- Roots music, now called Americana music
- Album
- Hungry Again
- Album year
- 1997
- Later work
- A series of bluegrass and acoustic albums