That quest has led me in recent years to Tecovas, an upstart brand out of Austin, Texas, that has been going toe-to-toe with heritage brands in the Western footwear space in terms of quality and ...

It’s Jeans Month here at the Strategist, and, very fittingly, Tecovas (the maker of some of our favorite cowboy boots) released a denim version of its best-selling Sadie boot last week.

The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in which she begs the beautiful title woman not to take her man, was inspired by a real bank teller's interactions with her ...

The big picture: Tecovas rapidly expanded in recent years, opening 11 new stores in 2024. The boot brand now has 42 brick-and ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82. According to a statement provided to The ...

Dean also inspired one of Parton's biggest hits, "Jolene." The story for the song came from a bank teller who had a "terrible crush" on her husband, Parton said in a 2008 interview with NPR.

Parton, who met Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat the day she moved to Nashville at 18, has previously told NPR in 2008 that she wrote the song Jolene about a flirty bank teller who seemed ...

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