By 1970, Dolly Parton finally broke into the top 10 on the Country chart with her cover of Jimmie Rodger’s “Mule Skinner Blues (Yodel No. 8),” which peaked at No. 3. A year later, she released her gospel album The Golden Streets Of Glory, followed two months later by her seventh album, Joshua, featuring songs […]
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