Abbie Kozolchyk, “Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ is 50: Why her most covered song has enduring global appeal,” Los Angeles Times (February 29, 2024). 

Who is Dolly Parton?, documentary, November 2023, Fox Nation.

Guest on “The 1A Record Club Listens To Dolly Parton’s ‘Rockstar,’” episode on NPR (November 24, 2023). The show originally aired on November 22, 2023.

Guest on “Dolly Parton's Dreambox,” episode on The Atlas Obscura podcast (November 9, 2023).

Corey Hoffman, “The Meaning Behind The Song: Unlikely Angel by Dolly Parton,” OldTimemusic (September 7, 2023).

Suzanne Slade, “7 reasons the world loves Dolly Parton” Washington Post, January 17, 2023.

Guest on the BBC radio show, The Forum, for an episode titled Bluegrass: Virtuoso Music of Appalachia, first aired August 25, 2022 (Dolly and bluegrass discussed at 33:20).

Marta Terrasa, “¿Pot Dolly Parton salvar els Estats Units?” Ara, September 4, 2021.

Featured author at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum Virtual Speakers Series on April 6, 2021 at 7:30pm EDT (hosted from Bristol, TN/VA).

Participant in a panel titled “Dolly Parton: Recent Books,” sponsored by the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, March 24, 2021.

Interview with Dave “Doc” Kirby, On the Bookshelf, WTBF Radio, Troy AL, March 21, 2021. Also available here.

Interview on Press Play with Madeleine Brand on KCRW (NPR in L.A.), “Dolly Parton remixes ‘Jolene’ and gets COVID vaccine shot that she helped fund,” March 3, 2021.

Interview in Music Journalism Insider, January 25, 2021.

“How does Dolly Parton celebrate her birthday? Writing a song, of course,” Opinion, The Tennessean, January 19, 2021.

Blog post on Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton for the Women's History Network blog, November 19, 2020.

Interview on Reality Life with Kate Casey (podcast), October 16, 2020 (Dolly segment at 48:55).

Biography: Dolly — documentary aired on A&E, April 2020, Francis Whately, producer and director; trailer; currently available on Netflix.

Dolly Parton: Here I Am — documentary aired on BBC2, December 2019, Francis Whately, producer and director; clip about “Jolene”; currently available on Netflix. (“Of all those testifying to her greatness as a songwriter I was especially glad to see Lydia R. Hamessley appear so often throughout the film, thus making this film a visual companion to her delightful book UNLIKELY ANGEL: The Songs of Dolly Parton.” Ed McNulty, Visual Parables (March 11, 2021).)

Presentation on Dolly Parton for Alumni College, June 2020.

Maria Cramer, “Confederate Symbols Are Coming Down. Should Dolly Parton Go Up Instead?,” New York Times, June 16, 2020.

Alex Burgerhoorn, “Now that the US is more divided than ever, Americans are clinging to one woman: Dolly Parton,” de Volkskrant, January 27, 2020 (original language title: “Nu de VS verdeelder zijn dan ooit, klampen Amerikanen zich vast aan één vrouw: Dolly Parton”).

“The unifying force that is Dolly Parton,” The Current, CBC Radio, December 6, 2019.

Dolly Parton: Here I Am — documentary for BBC2, December 2019; trailer.

Dolly Parton: Here I Am — documentary for BBC2, December 2019; description.

Vige Barrie, “Hamessley’s Unlikely Angel Focuses on Dolly Parton’s Songs,” Hamilton College News, October 19, 2020.

Maureen A. Nolan, “Writing the Book on Dolly,” Hamilton College Alumni Magazine, Summer 2018.