DOLLY PARTON: LIVE AT THE ROXY

DOLLY PARTON thrilled a standing-room-only crowd at The Roxy in Los Angeles Friday night (3/28), performing a special set for Los Angeles country radio station KKGO "Go Country 105” listeners. An array of VIPs were there, too, cheering DOLLY on: Emmy Rossum, Dita Von Teese, Kathy Griffin, Butch Walker, Katy Perry, and Perez Hilton plus actress Alison Janney, who’ll star in the musical “9 to 5,” for which Dolly wrote the music and lyrics; it world premieres September 3-October 20 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles before reaching Broadway in February 2009.  At the Roxy, DOLLY and her band belted out songs from her acclaimed and hit album Backwoods Barbie album (Dolly Records)—its first single “Better Get To Livin,” the newly released single “Jesus & Gravity” and the title track–plus her self-written smash hits “9 to 5,” “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You.”  Next up for DOLLY: two “American Idol” appearances this week (Tuesday 4/1 and Wednesday 4/2), where she’ll mentor the Idols and perform “Jesus & Gravity.” On April 22, DOLLY launches her “Backwoods Barbie” tour. As Dolly quipped, “A backwoods Barbie doesn’t come with a dream house. She comes with an outhouse.”