Dolly Parton Confirms Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks as LP Guests

Dolly Parton has confirmed extra friends who will seem on her upcoming rock album: Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Cher and John Fogerty.

The nation legend plans to launch the album, titled Rock Star, someday this fall. She has already stated Steve Perry and Steven Tyler might be on the report, however she introduced the newly named artists when talking on The View not too long ago. “We simply completed our tune final evening,” she stated of her Nicks collaboration. Parton additionally famous that though she is “doing my finest” to get Mick Jagger on the album, the Rolling Stones’ tune “(I Cannot Get No) Satisfaction” will seem on the LP with singers Pink and Brandi Carlile as friends.

As the singer beforehand famous, Rock Star will embody covers of songs by Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and others, together with some unique materials. After she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame final 12 months, Parton determined to maneuver forward with the challenge full steam. “I would all the time thought I would need to do a rock report as a result of my husband is a rock ‘n’ roll freak,” she stated on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I assumed, ‘If I am ever gonna do it, now’s the time.'”

Parton has contemplated different friends, too. In October, she stated she hoped to reunite a number of members of Led Zeppelin for her cowl of “Stairway to Heaven.” “I am making an attempt to see if Robert Plant would possibly sing on it,” she stated. “Possibly Jimmy Web page would possibly do the pick-up half on it.”

She additionally stated in an interview on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Present final month that she deliberate on masking Elton John’s “Do not Let the Solar Go Down on Me” and had requested the singer to affix her on the monitor. “I’ve despatched out a message asking if he would sing with me on it and presumably play the piano,” Parton famous. “So if y’all get to see him, say Dolly desires you to sing on her report!”

Parton stated she’s been reaching out to the artists herself to ask them to sing on the album, quite than working by means of a supervisor or publicist. “I ship a message myself as a result of I determine they needn’t get that by means of someone else,” she defined. “I am excited to do it, I actually am. I believe it is gonna be a superb album.”