November 26, 2023 • 15 mins
What a dream come true! We've talked about Dolly Parton being the person we've always wanted to interview and it asctually happened. Dolly shares details on her new, "Rockstar" album, who was the most fun to collaborate with. Plus, Dolly is still surprised to this day, THIS song ended up huge.
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I feel like I met her before. It's fantastic. We were hanging out
with an absolute legend, and Ihope before I even introduce her, I
hope it's okay to use the wordlegend. Ladies and gentlemen, Dolly partners
with us. Well, thank youfor having me. I've been calling a
lot of things, so I'll takelegend. Let me ask you before we
jump into things. You have thiseffect on people, and it's been talked
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about, but everybody loves Dolly.Is that a comfortable space for you to
living? Well, I don't knowthat everybody did, but I don't want
to hear about them, and Ihope they don't show up anytime soon.
Not in the middle of our interview. Well, I love people. I've
been around so long. I thinkpeople just feel like they know me because
I tell everything I know, talkabout everybody I know. So I just
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think people just feel comfortable with mebecause I'm comfortable with people. I love
people. Yeah, Well, soI want to jump into your book.
It's coming out October seventeenth, andthis book takes us behind the scenes on
all of your outfits and everything frommusic to award show to all of that
was that fun for you to kindof go down memory lane and see all
those outfits again. It was andit took me behind the seams. See
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it's they can never take on seas. It's called behind the Seams My life
in Rhystones, And I thought,well, I think people would really enjoy
hearing kind of what I you know, what I have to say about the
clothes that I've worn through the years, and to get a chance to acknowledge
some of these people that have mkind of helped make me who I am,
put me out on stage, makingme look the way I do,
the good, bad and the ugly, going back for six decades now,
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since I was just a little soI tell stories about how I felt during
the times I was wearing these thingsand getting a chance to for to interview
some of these people that really didwork on it, or their families some
of them's passion go now, causeI've been at it a long time.
But I just thought it would bea fun book to have for people to
look at. And maybe you touchon this in the book, But does
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Dolly wear any outfit twice? Ohyeah, I do. I'm not one
of those people. If I gotsomething like I'll wear out. You know,
I've got pieces of things. Imean most people, but I do.
And a lot of times when I'veworn certain things, like a certain
gown, I mean, that's thosethings cost a lot of money and I'm
not gonna just toss that. Sosometimes, like I say, if I've
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worn a gown at one of thebig shows, because I do concerts,
I'll just have it cut off,make it like a shorter dress and put
a couple in, you know,change a little bit, put a couple,
you know, little applicats or somefeathers or something on it. But
yeah, but I wear clothes alot of times twice three four sometimes,
especially stage clothes. I feel likeeverything you've warn has always been so iconic
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and I but I'm wondering, wasthere ever an outfit that you look back
on and we're like, Okay,maybe I shouldn't have done that. Well,
I look, when I was puttingtogether all these pictures, uh,
and these pictures of me wearing thesecertain wigs and certain outfigures, I thought,
oh my lord, what were youthinking? But I'm sure I found
all that good at the time.Don't we all back of old pictures and
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things? Oh? My God,and some of the hair that I wore.
I mean it was so big thatI couldn't already walk around in it,
and so but yeah, there area few things I thought. I
don't know about that, but Imust have thought it would look good at
the time. Is there as wewrap things up talking about the book,
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is there an outfit that you almosttotally forgot about? Are a story that
you've forgot about about a certain outfitthat you were able to relive through this
whole thing, Because obviously it's forthe fans, right, but it's an
opportunity for you to go back andlook at the impact you've made and at
certain points in your career too.Well. Tell you the little dress that
I wore when I became a memberof the Grand Old Oprey. It's featured
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in that and I wore the dresswith the little jacket when I became a
member. But I actually wore thatdress that was underneath that same jacket,
that same dress on an album coverwith Porta Wagoner too, So that was
an all purpose kind of a wearingsomething twice kind of a deal. And
then the the outfit I wore,the beautiful dress when I sang He's alive.
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Uh, that beautiful pearl dress atthe end where m It's got like
angel wings And that was such aspiritual mic for me singing that song,
and that song had such an effecton people, So I'll always remember that
dress too. Well. Now Iwanna talk about your album, rock Star.
It is incredible. I love thatyou decided to do rock music,
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cause I do feel like country musickind of goes hand in hand with rock
music. But what was the inspirationbehind the album and why was this the
right time to put out a rockalbum. Well, I always love rock
music. We all grew up lovingElvis and you know, Chuck Barry and
Jerry Lee Lewis and all those peoplethat were rocking it back then. Little
Richard I loved all that, andI'd often thought that I might do an
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album, a rock album, Butthen I started getting older and I thought
I'll probably didn't get around with that. Then they went up and put me
in the Rock and Roll Hall ofFame, which I didn't think I'd done
enough rock stuff to deserve that honor, so they put me in anyhow,
So I thought, well, thisis perfect opportunity. I'm gonna do a
rock and roll album so I canearn my keep in the rock and roll
Hall of Fame. So that's whatinspired. But my husband of fifty eight
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years loves rock and roll. I'vebeen with him fifty nine years. Uh,
And so I thought, well,I'm gonna do a lot of his
favorites, and then I'm gonna dosome of my favorites. Then I'm gonna
ask some my favorite singers to singon it. And we wound up doing
thirty songs, and so I'm reallyproud of it. I don't never need
to do another rock album, neverdone one before, so hopefully this will
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serve me from now on, evenlong after I'm gone. The names on
this album, as far as collaborationsgo, I mean it's a mile long
from the Beatles to I mean fournon blondes. I mean it's you're all
over the place. Who would youhave liked to work to or who work
with or who would you have likedto have on it that it didn't work
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out? Or you'd are you thoughtabout it too late? Mick Jagger,
for one, he was willing todo it. We were gonna we were
trying to find the rock song too. Uh, But he was in the
middle of doing a secret album atthat time. We were both w I
met up with him. He wasin LA when I was there, he
came by and listened to some uhyou know, they were doing a little
sound check on I mean a littlea listening party on some of the songs
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that we had done and so andthen he was in Nashville for a minute
doing something and I kept missing him, but he was the one. He's
the one that got away. SoI wound up doing Satisfaction with Pink and
Brandy Carlisle at which I thought thatturned out great, But I would love
to have had Mick on. Hewas one of Carl's favorites and one of
my favorites too. But maybe oneof these days I'll catch up with him
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and we'll get to do something somewhere. Well. One of my favorite collaborations
from the album is with Paul andRingo on Let It Be. I wanted,
how were you able to reach outto them personally and ask them,
Well, I had uh been aroundPaul a few times. I'd I'd done
a few things with him, andwe we have some of the same friends,
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so we we knew each other.But I had never thought to ask
him to sing on When I recordedthat song, I thought, I wonder
if Paul would be willing to singon it. I hadn't thought a Ringo
at that time, so I Ithought, well would he? And I
went through my manager and through hismanager because I didn't want to ask any
of these people blatantly ask him,because I didn't want him to say no
if they didn't want to do itand hurt my feelings or put them in
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a bad spot. So I gotI sent the message, sent a note,
and he got right back to meand said, I'd love to sing
on it and I'll play on itif you want me to. And I,
oh, I don't want you too, Are you kidding? I mean,
I thought that was like the mostamazing thing. He was so generous,
you know, with his talent.And then after we did that,
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I thought, OLLI Ringo's on oneleft of the Beatles, wonder if he
would play on it? So yeah, he said he would. So uh
that was great that I got thetwo of them on that well, and
the project was put together so well. And You've done amazing things in your
career. Obviously, you have alegacy in your music and in your entertainment
in general. This fit perfectly forwhere you're at now. Did it ever
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feel like you were in a foreignspace? I mean, country music lines
are more blurred than ever right now, right, But was any part of
you like, I don't know ifit's gonna work, but we're gonna do
it anyway. No. I feltI could do it, and I chose
songs that I thought were more inmy you know what I could do with
my my emotion and with my voicerange, which I have a good range,
you know. I thought, well, I can sing the notes.
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I think I can hit all thenotes. But I wanted it to really
be good, and I didn't wantit to sound country. I wanted because
I never get to sing other people'ssongs a lot because I write most of
my own stuff. So it wasa joy to get to really have a
reason to get to sing these greatsongs that I had always loved. So
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I just picked songs that my husbandloved and that I loved, and I
just went after it. And soit was great singing with some of these
artists trying to keep up. Iwas thinking, now I gotta give it
my best, cause I'm not gonnalet them out do me, or I'm
gonna at least try to measure upto where people thanks. Well, yeah,
she did a good job on arock and roll album. So I
tried hard. I gave it everythingI had, and I enjoyed it.
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It was a challenge, but agreat one. Now, Well, so
we were talking about kind of likethat transition from country to rock music.
You have original songs on the album, You've got nine of them. Was
that hard for you to get tolike get in that mentality of Okay,
I need to like rock it outhere. Well, I've I've had rock
songs that I've written, like babyI'm Burning, and a lot of stuff
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that I've had, even dance records, and I've recorded rock things in and
out, but not a totally rockand roll album with these great songs.
So I just thought, well,Kent Wells, who produced the album,
did a great job. He's areal rock and roller and he's my guitar
player, so he wrote. Hewas very good of really getting the rock
melodies together, the right rhythms andall that, so he was one was
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great with that. And of courseI can write the lyrics to anything,
and I would have some basic ideasfor the melody and then he could take
it and make it really great,or he would just come up with the
melody and I'd put songs to it. But then some of my own that
I wrote like a rock star,the title song, I was just thought,
well, how will I do this? Uh? I thought, well,
I'll tell a story about a littlegirl like a jon Jet who was
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on the album with me. Uh. And I thought, I'll tell a
story like how she might have feltwhen she was practicing her rock and roll
and you know, tr her momand Daddy's screaming at her turned down and
all that. But I'm gonna bea rock star whether you too like it
or not. Basically, so Ithought I could do that, and so
I I just caught. I justput myself in that zone and I just
stayed in it til I was done. I was a rock star. And
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even when I did the the photosfor the album, you know, I
was trying to be really wear great, great cool things that were really rocky
and all that. Here at myage, I am a rock star.
And I thought, well, II'm just gonna enjoy every bit of this,
and I have. When it comesto the names that are on this
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album, and even I mean,you've collaborated with other people. We just
did a special with Chris Jansen notlong ago, and you're hon a song
with him and Slash. What doesit mean to you that you've made such
an impact that names like you know, Slash Uh, and names like Chris
Jansen, names like the guys andgirls that are on this project. When
Dolly's name comes up, it's nevera can I do it? It's a
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when does she want me? Well, I really was honored that a lot
of these artists were willing to workwith me, and I was just as
honored to get to work with them. So it was kind of a give
and take, you know, withall of that. So I'm honored that
I've been around so long that peoplekind of know me and so they're willing
to help me out like a relative, like, oh, we got to
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help out aunt Dolly, her sisterDolly. Well, before we wrap things
up, I want to ask you, because I find this really hard to
believe. Did you lose a Dollylookalike contest? Yeah, but it was
a drag queen. But it wasin the gay club years ago. I
had a little apartment up above uh, Santa Monica Boulivard in La and every
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Halloween you'd see so many dollars andshares walking up and down the street.
And so my hairdresser at the time, David Blair, he said, uh,
you know, they have a contestdown there, he said, and
and whoever wins it, uh,they get free drinks for the rest of
the night. Well, you know, it was just like who they just
walk across the stage and they judgehim because he said, let's go down
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there. So I totally he hadover exaggerated my hair even bigger. I
made my beauty mark bigger and justkind of you know, did the whole
thing. And then of course whenI walked across the stage and they're like
drag queens are six feet tall anyhow, so I'm with high heels and here
I come out, you know,a little white honkey, you know,
walking across the stage, and Igot just a trickle of fun. We
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were dying eleven, so we hadto buy our own drinks to so To
Street. But it was just funnythat I always just said I lost it
only look at lot contents. Thatwasn't fair though, Uh. Forty nine
albums deep amazing collaborations, amazing songs. I mean, even your acting career.
I mean, you've done so manyamazing things. But just on the
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music side, are there projects thatyou are surprised worked? A song that
you put Obviously you believe in it, but when you put out that it
connected so much of you're like,well, I didn't. Maybe somebody else's
idea you just rolled with and itworked. Well. You never know.
If everybody knew what was gonna bea hit, we'd all be rich,
we'd all be hit writers, we'dall be hit artists. And I've often
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thought about that. But sometimes youjust never know what is gonna be a
hit. And sometimes some of myuh, some of the fans' favorite things
are just songs that were never asingle that I do perform like on stage,
for instance, like a song likedown from Dover or apple Jack,
you know, or songs like that. So you never know what's gonna what's
gonna hit. But I know onesong that I was so thankful that it
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did U and I was braying thatit would just when I left the Porta
Wagoner show. My first me andselling record was here You Come Again,
And it kind of proved a pointfor me that I had made a right
decision moving on. When country artistsor country people were saying that I l
I was leaving country and all that, that I was betraying myself and the
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country and leaving the porta Wagoner show, but I knew I had to go
show. I was so hopeful thatthat one would make it, because I
didn't know if it was gonna bea hit, but I was sure hoping
it would be. So that wasthat was a great example of what you're
saying, that it had the powerand the impact that it was a surprise
but a great one. And nowyou've worked with so many different artists,
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not just on the rock Star albumbut throughout your whole career. I want
to know, is there a collaborationthat you just really hold close to your
heart and forever? Well, yes, uh, Keny Rogers. I loved
Kenny, and I think the songIslands in the Stream, which everybody knows
and everybody loves, and I wascrazy over Kenny, So I would think
that that is one of the thingsthat will always stand out in my mind
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forever. That and then I gotto sing with a great artist like Kenny,
a great guy like Kenny and webecame great friends and Island's in the
stream. I never get tired ofsinging that song or hearing it, do
you now? Everybody loves it,so that was an outstanding piece of music
for me. Unreal, so muchfun hanging out with Dolly. She's got
a book, She's got We're gonnalink both, not only on the website
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but on her Instagram. Well,Dolly, pardon absolute pleasant things. Well,
thank you Wayne d and thank you. I love you. So is
it? Tay? Well, Tay, I really enjoyed being with you,
Tay. When what what is thename of our group? And there's another
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person in country mission Tay and Maddyand Tay Yeah, but she spells her
t A e A y Okay.Well, it was good to see you both
I feel like I met her before. It's fantastic. We were hanging out
with an absolute legend, and Ihope before I even introduce her, I
hope it's okay to use the wordlegend. Ladies and gentlemen, Dolly partners
with us. Well, thank youfor having me. I've been calling a
lot of things, so I'll takelegend. Let me ask you before we
jump into things. You have thiseffect on people, and it's been talked
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about, but everybody loves Dolly.Is that a comfortable space for you to
living? Well, I don't knowthat everybody did, but I don't want
to hear about them, and Ihope they don't show up anytime soon.
Not in the middle of our interview. Well, I love people. I've
been around so long. I thinkpeople just feel like they know me because
I tell everything I know, talkabout everybody I know. So I just
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think people just feel comfortable with mebecause I'm comfortable with people. I love
people. Yeah, Well, soI want to jump into your book.
It's coming out October seventeenth, andthis book takes us behind the scenes on
all of your outfits and everything frommusic to award show to all of that
was that fun for you to kindof go down memory lane and see all
those outfits again. It was andit took me behind the seams. See
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it's they can never take on seas. It's called behind the Seams My life
in Rhystones, And I thought,well, I think people would really enjoy
hearing kind of what I you know, what I have to say about the
clothes that I've worn through the years, and to get a chance to acknowledge
some of these people that have mkind of helped make me who I am,
put me out on stage, makingme look the way I do,
the good, bad and the ugly, going back for six decades now,
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since I was just a little soI tell stories about how I felt during
the times I was wearing these thingsand getting a chance to for to interview
some of these people that really didwork on it, or their families some
of them's passion go now, causeI've been at it a long time.
But I just thought it would bea fun book to have for people to
look at. And maybe you touchon this in the book, But does
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Dolly wear any outfit twice? Ohyeah, I do. I'm not one
of those people. If I gotsomething like I'll wear out. You know,
I've got pieces of things. Imean most people, but I do.
And a lot of times when I'veworn certain things, like a certain
gown, I mean, that's thosethings cost a lot of money and I'm
not gonna just toss that. Sosometimes, like I say, if I've
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worn a gown at one of thebig shows, because I do concerts,
I'll just have it cut off,make it like a shorter dress and put
a couple in, you know,change a little bit, put a couple,
you know, little applicats or somefeathers or something on it. But
yeah, but I wear clothes alot of times twice three four sometimes,
especially stage clothes. I feel likeeverything you've warn has always been so iconic
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and I but I'm wondering, wasthere ever an outfit that you look back
on and we're like, Okay,maybe I shouldn't have done that. Well,
I look, when I was puttingtogether all these pictures, uh,
and these pictures of me wearing thesecertain wigs and certain outfigures, I thought,
oh my lord, what were youthinking? But I'm sure I found
all that good at the time.Don't we all back of old pictures and
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things? Oh? My God,and some of the hair that I wore.
I mean it was so big thatI couldn't already walk around in it,
and so but yeah, there area few things I thought. I
don't know about that, but Imust have thought it would look good at
the time. Is there as wewrap things up talking about the book,
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is there an outfit that you almosttotally forgot about? Are a story that
you've forgot about about a certain outfitthat you were able to relive through this
whole thing, Because obviously it's forthe fans, right, but it's an
opportunity for you to go back andlook at the impact you've made and at
certain points in your career too.Well. Tell you the little dress that
I wore when I became a memberof the Grand Old Oprey. It's featured
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in that and I wore the dresswith the little jacket when I became a
member. But I actually wore thatdress that was underneath that same jacket,
that same dress on an album coverwith Porta Wagoner too, So that was
an all purpose kind of a wearingsomething twice kind of a deal. And
then the the outfit I wore,the beautiful dress when I sang He's alive.
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Uh, that beautiful pearl dress atthe end where m It's got like
angel wings And that was such aspiritual mic for me singing that song,
and that song had such an effecton people, So I'll always remember that
dress too. Well. Now Iwanna talk about your album, rock Star.
It is incredible. I love thatyou decided to do rock music,
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cause I do feel like country musickind of goes hand in hand with rock
music. But what was the inspirationbehind the album and why was this the
right time to put out a rockalbum. Well, I always love rock
music. We all grew up lovingElvis and you know, Chuck Barry and
Jerry Lee Lewis and all those peoplethat were rocking it back then. Little
Richard I loved all that, andI'd often thought that I might do an
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album, a rock album, Butthen I started getting older and I thought
I'll probably didn't get around with that. Then they went up and put me
in the Rock and Roll Hall ofFame, which I didn't think I'd done
enough rock stuff to deserve that honor, so they put me in anyhow,
So I thought, well, thisis perfect opportunity. I'm gonna do a
rock and roll album so I canearn my keep in the rock and roll
Hall of Fame. So that's whatinspired. But my husband of fifty eight
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years loves rock and roll. I'vebeen with him fifty nine years. Uh,
And so I thought, well,I'm gonna do a lot of his
favorites, and then I'm gonna dosome of my favorites. Then I'm gonna
ask some my favorite singers to singon it. And we wound up doing
thirty songs, and so I'm reallyproud of it. I don't never need
to do another rock album, neverdone one before, so hopefully this will
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serve me from now on, evenlong after I'm gone. The names on
this album, as far as collaborationsgo, I mean it's a mile long
from the Beatles to I mean fournon blondes. I mean it's you're all
over the place. Who would youhave liked to work to or who work
with or who would you have likedto have on it that it didn't work
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out? Or you'd are you thoughtabout it too late? Mick Jagger,
for one, he was willing todo it. We were gonna we were
trying to find the rock song too. Uh, But he was in the
middle of doing a secret album atthat time. We were both w I
met up with him. He wasin LA when I was there, he
came by and listened to some uhyou know, they were doing a little
sound check on I mean a littlea listening party on some of the songs
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that we had done and so andthen he was in Nashville for a minute
doing something and I kept missing him, but he was the one. He's
the one that got away. SoI wound up doing Satisfaction with Pink and
Brandy Carlisle at which I thought thatturned out great, But I would love
to have had Mick on. Hewas one of Carl's favorites and one of
my favorites too. But maybe oneof these days I'll catch up with him
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and we'll get to do something somewhere. Well. One of my favorite collaborations
from the album is with Paul andRingo on Let It Be. I wanted,
how were you able to reach outto them personally and ask them,
Well, I had uh been aroundPaul a few times. I'd I'd done
a few things with him, andwe we have some of the same friends,
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so we we knew each other.But I had never thought to ask
him to sing on When I recordedthat song, I thought, I wonder
if Paul would be willing to singon it. I hadn't thought a Ringo
at that time, so I Ithought, well would he? And I
went through my manager and through hismanager because I didn't want to ask any
of these people blatantly ask him,because I didn't want him to say no
if they didn't want to do itand hurt my feelings or put them in
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a bad spot. So I gotI sent the message, sent a note,
and he got right back to meand said, I'd love to sing
on it and I'll play on itif you want me to. And I,
oh, I don't want you too, Are you kidding? I mean,
I thought that was like the mostamazing thing. He was so generous,
you know, with his talent.And then after we did that,
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I thought, OLLI Ringo's on oneleft of the Beatles, wonder if he
would play on it? So yeah, he said he would. So uh
that was great that I got thetwo of them on that well, and
the project was put together so well. And You've done amazing things in your
career. Obviously, you have alegacy in your music and in your entertainment
in general. This fit perfectly forwhere you're at now. Did it ever
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feel like you were in a foreignspace? I mean, country music lines
are more blurred than ever right now, right, But was any part of
you like, I don't know ifit's gonna work, but we're gonna do
it anyway. No. I feltI could do it, and I chose
songs that I thought were more inmy you know what I could do with
my my emotion and with my voicerange, which I have a good range,
you know. I thought, well, I can sing the notes.
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I think I can hit all thenotes. But I wanted it to really
be good, and I didn't wantit to sound country. I wanted because
I never get to sing other people'ssongs a lot because I write most of
my own stuff. So it wasa joy to get to really have a
reason to get to sing these greatsongs that I had always loved. So
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I just picked songs that my husbandloved and that I loved, and I
just went after it. And soit was great singing with some of these
artists trying to keep up. Iwas thinking, now I gotta give it
my best, cause I'm not gonnalet them out do me, or I'm
gonna at least try to measure upto where people thanks. Well, yeah,
she did a good job on arock and roll album. So I
tried hard. I gave it everythingI had, and I enjoyed it.
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It was a challenge, but agreat one. Now, Well, so
we were talking about kind of likethat transition from country to rock music.
You have original songs on the album, You've got nine of them. Was
that hard for you to get tolike get in that mentality of Okay,
I need to like rock it outhere. Well, I've I've had rock
songs that I've written, like babyI'm Burning, and a lot of stuff
(09:31):
that I've had, even dance records, and I've recorded rock things in and
out, but not a totally rockand roll album with these great songs.
So I just thought, well,Kent Wells, who produced the album,
did a great job. He's areal rock and roller and he's my guitar
player, so he wrote. Hewas very good of really getting the rock
melodies together, the right rhythms andall that, so he was one was
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great with that. And of courseI can write the lyrics to anything,
and I would have some basic ideasfor the melody and then he could take
it and make it really great,or he would just come up with the
melody and I'd put songs to it. But then some of my own that
I wrote like a rock star,the title song, I was just thought,
well, how will I do this? Uh? I thought, well,
I'll tell a story about a littlegirl like a jon Jet who was
(10:18):
on the album with me. Uh. And I thought, I'll tell a
story like how she might have feltwhen she was practicing her rock and roll
and you know, tr her momand Daddy's screaming at her turned down and
all that. But I'm gonna bea rock star whether you too like it
or not. Basically, so Ithought I could do that, and so
I I just caught. I justput myself in that zone and I just
stayed in it til I was done. I was a rock star. And
(10:41):
even when I did the the photosfor the album, you know, I
was trying to be really wear great, great cool things that were really rocky
and all that. Here at myage, I am a rock star.
And I thought, well, II'm just gonna enjoy every bit of this,
and I have. When it comesto the names that are on this
(11:01):
album, and even I mean,you've collaborated with other people. We just
did a special with Chris Jansen notlong ago, and you're hon a song
with him and Slash. What doesit mean to you that you've made such
an impact that names like you know, Slash Uh, and names like Chris
Jansen, names like the guys andgirls that are on this project. When
Dolly's name comes up, it's nevera can I do it? It's a
(11:22):
when does she want me? Well, I really was honored that a lot
of these artists were willing to workwith me, and I was just as
honored to get to work with them. So it was kind of a give
and take, you know, withall of that. So I'm honored that
I've been around so long that peoplekind of know me and so they're willing
to help me out like a relative, like, oh, we got to
(11:43):
help out aunt Dolly, her sisterDolly. Well, before we wrap things
up, I want to ask you, because I find this really hard to
believe. Did you lose a Dollylookalike contest? Yeah, but it was
a drag queen. But it wasin the gay club years ago. I
had a little apartment up above uh, Santa Monica Boulivard in La and every
(12:07):
Halloween you'd see so many dollars andshares walking up and down the street.
And so my hairdresser at the time, David Blair, he said, uh,
you know, they have a contestdown there, he said, and
and whoever wins it, uh,they get free drinks for the rest of
the night. Well, you know, it was just like who they just
walk across the stage and they judgehim because he said, let's go down
(12:28):
there. So I totally he hadover exaggerated my hair even bigger. I
made my beauty mark bigger and justkind of you know, did the whole
thing. And then of course whenI walked across the stage and they're like
drag queens are six feet tall anyhow, so I'm with high heels and here
I come out, you know,a little white honkey, you know,
walking across the stage, and Igot just a trickle of fun. We
(12:50):
were dying eleven, so we hadto buy our own drinks to so To
Street. But it was just funnythat I always just said I lost it
only look at lot contents. Thatwasn't fair though, Uh. Forty nine
albums deep amazing collaborations, amazing songs. I mean, even your acting career.
I mean, you've done so manyamazing things. But just on the
(13:13):
music side, are there projects thatyou are surprised worked? A song that
you put Obviously you believe in it, but when you put out that it
connected so much of you're like,well, I didn't. Maybe somebody else's
idea you just rolled with and itworked. Well. You never know.
If everybody knew what was gonna bea hit, we'd all be rich,
we'd all be hit writers, we'dall be hit artists. And I've often
(13:35):
thought about that. But sometimes youjust never know what is gonna be a
hit. And sometimes some of myuh, some of the fans' favorite things
are just songs that were never asingle that I do perform like on stage,
for instance, like a song likedown from Dover or apple Jack,
you know, or songs like that. So you never know what's gonna what's
gonna hit. But I know onesong that I was so thankful that it
(13:58):
did U and I was braying thatit would just when I left the Porta
Wagoner show. My first me andselling record was here You Come Again,
And it kind of proved a pointfor me that I had made a right
decision moving on. When country artistsor country people were saying that I l
I was leaving country and all that, that I was betraying myself and the
(14:18):
country and leaving the porta Wagoner show, but I knew I had to go
show. I was so hopeful thatthat one would make it, because I
didn't know if it was gonna bea hit, but I was sure hoping
it would be. So that wasthat was a great example of what you're
saying, that it had the powerand the impact that it was a surprise
but a great one. And nowyou've worked with so many different artists,
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not just on the rock Star albumbut throughout your whole career. I want
to know, is there a collaborationthat you just really hold close to your
heart and forever? Well, yes, uh, Keny Rogers. I loved
Kenny, and I think the songIslands in the Stream, which everybody knows
and everybody loves, and I wascrazy over Kenny, So I would think
that that is one of the thingsthat will always stand out in my mind
(15:03):
forever. That and then I gotto sing with a great artist like Kenny,
a great guy like Kenny and webecame great friends and Island's in the
stream. I never get tired ofsinging that song or hearing it, do
you now? Everybody loves it,so that was an outstanding piece of music
for me. Unreal, so muchfun hanging out with Dolly. She's got
a book, She's got We're gonnalink both, not only on the website
(15:24):
but on her Instagram. Well,Dolly, pardon absolute pleasant things. Well,
thank you Wayne d and thank you. I love you. So is
it? Tay? Well, Tay, I really enjoyed being with you,
Tay. When what what is thename of our group? And there's another
(15:46):
person in country mission Tay and Maddyand Tay Yeah, but she spells her
t A e A y Okay.Well, it was good to see you both
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