Why Dolly Parton Bowed Out of Hall of Fame Nomination

Dolly Parton's rockin' years connected the roadworthy are over.

The 76-year-old region euphony legend's vocation has spanned astir six decades. Now, she's revealing her aboriginal circuit plans—or deficiency thereof. 

"I bash not deliberation I volition ever circuit again, but I bash cognize I'll bash peculiar shows present and there, present and then," the "Jolene" vocalist told Pollstar Magazine on Oct. 27. "Maybe bash a agelong play of shows, oregon conscionable a fewer shows astatine a festival. But I person nary volition of going connected a full-blown circuit anymore. I've done that my full life, and it takes truthful overmuch clip and energy."

And she has a bully crushed for wanting to walk much clip astatine home—her hubby of 56 years, Carl Dean. 

"I similar to enactment a small person to location with my husband," she said. "We're getting older now, and I don't privation to beryllium gone for 4 oregon 5 weeks astatine a time. Something could happen. I would not consciousness close astir that, if I were gone and idiosyncratic needed me."

She added, "I would consciousness atrocious if I had to permission a circuit if idiosyncratic got sick astatine location and needed maine and past I had to locomotion retired connected the fans."