Way Overthinking "Jolene"
This is the second part of a four-part essay.
It’s about “Jolene.”
The premise developed in part one is that when the Dolly Parton single “Jolene,” recently covered by Beyoncé, crossed over, on its release in 1973, not only to pop—a number of country songs did, that year—but also to the nascent audience for what would become known as …