(Los Angeles) Last year, Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, against her will. And here she is, a year later, presenting her first rock album.
Parton will release her new album on Friday, which has an appropriate title: Rockstar.
In 2022, Parton said she didn’t believe she “earned” the right to be nominated, but the temple inducted her anyway.
“I just didn’t think I had done enough in the rock world to be considered, to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when there were so many great rock artists who weren’t even there. ” Parton told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
“They were going to put me in anyway, so I just accepted it gracefully.” But I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to have to earn my keep,'” she added.
She started by covering some of her favorite rock and roll classics. Some tracks feature the original artists: Every Breath You Take with Sting, Baby, I Love Your Way with Peter Frampton, Heart of Glass with Debbie Harry and Heartbreaker with Pat Benatar. Some are creative collaborations: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction with Pink and Brandi Carlile, Night Moves with Chris Stapleton and stairway to Heaven with Lizzo on flute.
She also wanted to sing with Mick Jagger and Lionel Richie, but their schedules didn’t allow it.
She did, however, manage to reunite the Beatles – well, almost. Long before the release of the group’s new song, Now and ThenParton asked Paul McCartney if he would sing on a cover of Let It Be.
“He said, ‘Yeah, I’d be happy to play it too, if you want,’ and I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I died and went to heaven,'” she said. she tells.
Then Ringo Starr replaced the drums they had recorded on the track.
Rockstar also features nine original songs. Some have been dug up – My Blue Tearsfor example, was written when Parton was with The Porter Wagoner Show in the late 1960s and early 70s, and I Dreamed About Elvis was written over two decades.
For now, Parton says Rockstar is his first and last rock album. She is currently adapting her life story into a Broadway musical and wants to explore other genres.
“I would like to do an R&B album,” she said. And the blues. I would love to do a blues album. So, who knows? There are all kinds of things to do. »
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