The day after she graduated high school in 1964, Dolly Parton left her home in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains and boarded the first bus to Nashville with a suitcase made of cardboard — and filled with songs. She quickly impressed Nashville’s country music moguls with her compositions, but they insisted that her voice just wouldn’t make her a star.

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