Dolly Parton’s marriage to the reticent Carl Dean, whom she married when she first started her singing career, has long served as an inspiration.
Dolly Parton is regarded as the person whose marital counsel is most beneficial. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member.
And country music veteran began recording and publishing as a solo artist in 1967, a year after she married the seldom seen Carl Dean.
Despite Dean’s reputation for avoiding the limelight, the couple has been married for over 60 years. Photographs of the two seldom surface.
Since they met in a laundromat the day she relocated to Nashville. Parton has long claimed that Dean, a retired paver four years her elder, has only ever seen her live performance once.
