Dolly Parton’s new rock and roll album is coming in November.
The country superstar, who was compelled to record the collection after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, will launch the campaign for the LP by debuting its lead single at next month’s ACM Awards.
“It’s the last song in the show and the first song from the rock album. We’re going to put it out right after that as the first single,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
“And then we’ll have a couple of songs probably before the entire album comes out. I’m so excited.”
The record is set to feature a big-name line-up of collaborators, including Elton John, Paul McCartney and Stevie Nicks, among others, and while Dolly had hoped Mick Jagger would also feature, she was unable to pin him down for the project.
“I was really pleased. Like everything I do, I ask God to bless it and to guide me in it and to let it be a blessing for everybody that’s involved in it,” she said.
“I’ve made some really good friends. It’s just really had a good, positive effect on everybody… It’s gonna get a lot of publicity and everybody wanted to do their best for me. I wanted to do my best for them. So, because of that, we really came up with some great stuff.”
On Mick, who said she’s “always had a crush” on, Dolly joked: “I ran after him like a high school girl after a jock!”
“There was a lot of people I wanted, and a lot of people that would have been happy to do [it] and actually wanted to do it, but we never could either find the right song or we never could get our schedules together before our deadline was over,” she continued.”
“But I love Mick Jagger no matter what. I’ll still be running after him all all through the years. Maybe if I ever do another one, or maybe I can sing on one of his records.”
