Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl named Dolly Parton. Parton, who died this week, at age 80, produced some 50 solo albums, sold somewhere north of 100 million records, starred in several movies, and wrote or co-wrote more than a dozen books. When her home county was devastated by wildfires in 2016, she sent $1,000 dollars a month for six months to every family that had lost a home. She donated a million dollars to fund the development of the coronavirus vaccine. “Still, for all this, songs were always the heart of it,” Kathryn Schulz writes. And Dolly sang about everything—with a voice that may have been the most distinctive in the business. Schulz remembers Dolly Parton—not just as the Queen of Country music, but as the people’s President: newyorker.com/culture/postsc…