Here's how Dolly Parton's relationship with Carl Dean in their early years of marriage played a role in the creation of one ...

Parton says she was based on a real person who got a little too close to her real-life husband, Carl Dean. In 2008, the ...

Dolly Parton has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene" was inspired by her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82.

Dolly Parton relaxes around the pool of the Kahala Hilton Hotel in May 1984, with her husband Carl Dean next to her in yellow ...

Dolly Parton's late husband Carl Dean served as the inspiration behind one of her greatest hits. Parton loosely wrote "Jolene ...

Dolly Parton has released a breathtaking new ballad in tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean. Dean, who was Parton’s devoted ...

She and Dean got married on May 30, 1966 (Memorial Day) in a small ceremony attended by only Parton’s mother Avie Lee Parton, ...

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away in Nashville at 82. Dean was the inspiration for Parton's hit song "Jolene," based on a bank teller who admired him. The couple met in 1964 and ...

Dolly Parton released Jolene in 1973, and the song’s love triangle is actually based on a true story. She revealed the meaning of the song back in 2008.

Parton announced the news today in an Instagram post. "Carl Dean, husband of Dolly Parton, passed away March 3rd in Nashville ...

She wrote the hit 1973 song after a bank teller caught the eye of Dean, who died on Monday. She attributed its success to its simplicity and the universal emotions it evokes.

Dolly Parton's husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82, helped birth one of the most iconic songs of her career. The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in ...