A call for Dolly tributes for a collective Fedi post
All flags are flying at half-mast here at 1001 OA, in honour of our beloved Dolly Parton.
We have Dolly’s 1974 album Jolene on The List and hadn’t yet gotten to it on the blog, but now… Dolly was such a force that I feel it’s inadequate to spotlight the album/her with just my own words. And I know there’s a lot of love for Dolly in the Fediverse, so I’d love to do a Fedi-sourced blog post to celebrate Dolly and Jolene, similar to what we did for Bowie’s Blackstar (though, I imagine, a lot less sombre). I adore these sorts of community oral history things from us regular music fans, it’s really a beautiful thing to see how the artists we love and the music they make bring us all together. So, if there’s enough interest, I’d love to provide that space for people on the 1001 OA blog.
If you’re on Fedi and you’d like to share your thoughts on Dolly and Jolene (or any other Dolly album, really), please join in! Submissions could include whatever you’d like to express your love of Dolly, e.g., a story of when you first heard Dolly or Jolene/the title track, a favourite performance of Dolly’s or a sweet cover, a favourite Dolly quote or anecdote, Dolly fan art you made, or simply your personal tribute to Dolly…whatever, even if it’s just something you already posted in the Fediverse (no AI-generated or AI-assisted material, thanks). For reference, for our collective Bowie spotlight, we had submissions ranging from a 1-word reaction to a 1-page personal anecdote, and they were all fantastic.[1]
I’ll leave this call up for about a month. Submissions can be sent via reply/DM to the pinned toot on our linernotes.club account, or to the blog email, johnmastodon @ 1001otheralbums.com. Please let me know if you want your full Fedi name and instance included so it’s clickable (otherwise I default to just the username), or would like it anonymous. I’ll then collect and arrange everything together and add some general notes/links for the album as we do for typical album spotlights, and will then publish the blog post here, cross-posting to the Fediverse just as this post is. The aim is to publish on the date the single “Jolene” was released, October 15.
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- For reference, our Fedi-sourced tribute to Blackstar. ↩︎
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