Dolly Parton loves Christmas music!
“Well, you know I love all the Christmas songs,” the country legend, 78, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I love the fast ones, I love the slow ones.”
“I love ‘Silent Night’ and ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem,’ but then I love ‘Rudolph’ and all of those fun things,” she continues. “I just love all of that.”
Parton acknowledges that how people listen to music has changed throughout the years, and she herself has embraced using technology to make playing her favorite songs easier than ever.
“We all have either an Alexa or Siri or one of those kinds of things,” she says. “I just always holler out, ‘Alexa, play holiday music for 12 hours in my house,’ or something like that, and I just like all of it.”
Parton released her first holiday album, Once Upon a Christmas, alongside Kenny Rogers back in 1984.
She followed it up in 1990 with her solo collection of festive songs, titled Home for Christmas, but fans then had to wait 30 years for the next holiday album, Holly Dolly Christmas, which featured classics including “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” and “Mary, Did You Know?”
Throughout the years, Parton has also released several Christmas songs for original movies, such as Christmas at Dollywood for Hallmark Channel and Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square for Netflix.
Parton’s love of the annual holiday makes it no surprise that she published Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas ahead of Dec. 25.
The children’s book is a sequel to her 2023’s Billy the Kid Makes It Big.
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Parton founded Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in 1995, which sends free books each month to children from birth to age 5, no matter their household income.
Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas by the country singer and Erica S. Perl, illustrated by MacKenzie Haley, is available now, wherever books are sold.
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