Stephen Colbert couldn’t hold back his tears after hearing Dolly Parton pay tribute to her late mother, Avie Lee Owens, with an impromptu performance.On Tuesday, October 20, the “Jolene” songstress, 74, opened up about some of her favorite songs from her childhood while discussing her new book, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “Mama was a good singer too and she would just sing a cappella all the time,” Parton said of her mother, who passed away in December 2003.
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