Jolene and I Will Always Love You

Cover versions of the month #119 & #120 White Stripes and Whitney Houston cover Dolly PartonI have a list of songs and cover versions I intend to research and blog about when time allows. The White Stripes ferocious take on Dolly Parton's Jolene has been on that list for a while. As I set out to finally write about Jack and Meg White's ferocious garage band cover version, I stumbled across something astounding that made me decide to also write about Parton's I Will Always Love You.Whitney Houston's skyscraping version was number 1 for months in my youth.The astounding fact is ... Dolly Parton, very likely, wrote both of these world class songs in one day! In 2017, Parton told a radio show that she had found an old cassette of some initial songwriting ideas/demos. Jolene and I Will Always Love You were on it, back to back! In a later interview with GQ in 2020, Parton said; If I didn't write them on the same day, it was during that same week, or that period of time when I had that…