Dolly Parton's legacy offers a powerful reminder: You can manufacture an image. You can't manufacture authenticity. She's the real deal.

Dolly Parton's legacy offers a powerful reminder: You can manufacture an image. You can't manufacture authenticity. She's the real deal.

The Queen of Country, who has died aged 80, was instantly recognizable but unquestionably one of a kind, writes Kevin E G Perry. ‘I want to be remembered as somebody who took her…