when emmylou harris comes over, i miss that and i go home to andon and all of my cousins brothers andters sing and play. we used to harmonize together. i can't talk to them about politics because they are republicans. going to get you, i am 67 years old and i have had an unusually long turn at the trough, getting to do things that other people don't get to do and i am grateful for that. i have to be content with that. i have defined a way to make myself useful. shouldve that children all be taught music at an early age. and in the east bay in northern california, they work a lot with immigrant kids and they teach them how to play, dance, and sing. they teach them visual art and they do the best job i have ever seen with kids. they are not brought up to are not out there to be trained seals. they are to use it in their social and emotional life to work out their problems. they can use music in a really organic way. i go to or her souls and dance classes and i have the best time because it is like going to rehearsal and the music is so good. there is a huge reduction in teen pregnancy.

dolly parton and emmylou harris.'ve grown too old to dream ♪ >> reporter: she had a way of making everybody their best. after all, her backup band became the eagles. was it as great a ride as we all imagine, "almost famous," here -- >> oh, that movie? well, my life wasn't -- i'm kind of, you know, got to send me a valentine, take me out to dinner kind of girl. like, these girls doing hookups now? i feel like my own victorian grandmother. and i did have a victorian grandmother, but i mean, hookups? come on. i wasn't into hookups. but i was quite busy out there. i had lots of very nice boyfriends. >> reporter: she was born in arizona, mexican on her father's side, and at 4 years old, she already had the voice that would earn her grammys. the first woman ever to have four platinum albums in a row. but she says about a decade ago, she felt something was going wrong. instead of the joy, the strain. >> and i knew it was mechanical and muscular. it takes a tremendous amount of coordination to make your vocal chords vibrate