In the 1970s, Dolly Parton took the stage at a New York concert in front of an array of celebrities . Major musicians, actors, and artists eagerly waited to hear Parton perform. While Parton was her typical self onstage, cracking jokes and singing songs about her upbringing, at least one critic believed the act was overly calculated.
Parton’s guitarist shared why it may have come across this way. Dolly Parton’s guitarist said she was very nervous at a concert in New York In 1977, Parton played three shows at New York’s Bottom Line to audiences that included people like Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, and John Belushi. The crowd adored her, but one critic for the New Times believed Parton was overly concerned with “capturing attention than on rewarding it.
” Parton’s guitarist, Don Roth, thought this resulted from nerves. “I can tell you one thing,” Roth said in the book Dolly by Alanna Nash. “If she seemed snooty, it’s because she was scared.
Because she’s scared of big city people and New York, to begin with. But if there’s one thing Dolly ain’t, it’s snooty. She’s open and funny — until she gets in a situation that she can’t handle, and then she goes into the shell a little bit.
Because she doesn’t know how to be New York.” Though Parton exudes confidence in everything she does, Roth said she still deals with nerves . She didn’t feel she fit in with the crowd of celebrities at her show.
“One thing I learned a long time ago is that Do.