Dolly Parton has all the time been a lady of her phrase, and he or she’s holding true to the assertion she made again in Could. She’s making a rock album. Nevertheless it’s who she’s obtained in thoughts that makes it much more thrilling – Parton needs to get Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Web page to reunite for a brand new tackle “Stairway to Heaven.”
The nation star, who initially pushed again on her Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame nomination earlier this yr, feeling she was unworthy of the title, vowed she’d make a rock document to mark the event if she was inducted. That the truth is will occur in November.
As she instructed Billboard earlier this yr, “I’m not anticipating that I’ll get in. But when I do, I’ll instantly, subsequent yr, should put out a fantastic rock and roll album — which I’ve needed to do for years, like a Linda Ronstadt or Coronary heart form of factor. So this will have been only a God-wink for me to go forward and do this. It’s simply good to be nominated.”
Listening to Parton’s assertion was like a bat sign to the music neighborhood, as Coronary heart’s Nancy Wilson provided to assist write it and even mega producer Steve Albini provided to be behind the boards on this tweet.
However now, Parton is telling Pollstar what her precise plans are for the album in a brand new interview printed Oct. 27. One in all them consists of protecting “Stairway to Heaven,” and he or she needs to reunite Plant and Web page for the trouble.
Talking of her “large rock ‘n’ roll fan” husband, who she finally needs to do the upcoming album for, Parton shared, “He didn’t prefer it after I was going to do ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ However I’m going to redo that actually on the cash. I did it form of bluegrass-style after I did it; however after I do the rock album, I’m going to truly re-record it – and do it extra true to the common document. I’m making an attempt to see if Robert Plant would possibly sing on it. Perhaps Jimmy Web page would possibly do the pick-up half on it. I’m trying ahead to dragging in among the nice basic individuals, ladies and boys, to sing on among the songs.”
The final time Plant and Web page appeared collectively was a 2007 profit present for Atlantic Information co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, as famous by Final Traditional Rock.
Although Parton additionally shared she’s “not far sufficient alongside to debate who and what” is likely to be behind the album, she additionally threw out another hints with an inventory of who she’s all the time dreamed of working with. These embrace her goddaughter Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, Woman Gaga, even Jimmy Fallon. “We sound actually good collectively; Jimmy is a very good singer. He doesn’t assume so, however I do,” she stated.
Within the Pollstar interview, Parton additionally revealed that, at 76-years-old, she does not plan to tour anymore however will do “particular reveals right here and there, from time to time.”
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