Before the world crowned her the Queen of Country, Dolly Parton was just a young dreamer with a guitar and a heart full of truth. Everything changed the moment she sang “Everything Beautiful (In Its Own Way)” for Porter Wagoner. The raw honesty in her voice stopped him cold. “I knew,” Wagoner later confessed, “that if a person could write a song like that, they’d have to have a real soul inside them.” In that instant, Dolly’s warmth and sincerity melted every doubt—and Wagoner knew he had discovered a once-in-a-lifetime star…
The Song That Changed Everything: How Dolly Parton Won Over Porter Wagoner
The Struggling Dreamer
Meeting Porter Wagoner
The Song That Stopped Him Cold
The Big Break
A Star is Born
The Legacy of That Song
The Power of Belief