Next month, Dolly Parton will likely be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame — one thing she initially pushed again in opposition to as a result of she felt she hadn’t but made an incredible rock report. Well, the Rock Hall nonetheless went forward with the nom, and since her February nomination Parton has confirmed that she is going to formally make a rock report (Steve Albini even provided to supply it at one level). Now, in a brand new interview with Pollstar, Parton is laying out some hopes, goals, and concrete plans round stated stated rock album. One of these hopes is to reunite Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on the report.
“When I got nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, I thought ‘Well, no better time to do it,’” Parton says. “I had always wanted to do it. My husband is a big hard rock ’n’ roll fan, and for years I thought, “One of these days I’d like to do an album mainly just for him, just to kind of do it.” When I obtained nominated, I assumed, “Why not simply go forward and do it whereas the iron’s scorching? Maybe have a number of the greats, the legends of rock ‘n’ roll sing together with me.
I’m gathering all that stuff and notifying a number of folks. When I get leveled out from ending the film [“Run, Rose, Run”], hopefully I’m going to have an actual good album. I’m wanting ahead to it.”
About Plant and Page, Parton provides that she’d like them to hitch her on “Stairway To Heaven”: “I’m trying to see if Robert Plant might sing on it. Maybe Jimmy Page might do the pick-up part on it. I’m looking forward to dragging in some of the great classic people, girls and boys, to sing on some of the songs. I’m not far enough along to discuss who and what, but I am going to do an album.”
Plant and Page have been final on a studio observe collectively in 2001 once they sang “My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It” from the Good Rockin’ Tonight – The Legacy Of Sun Records compilation. They final carried out collectively when Led Zeppelin reunited at a 2007 Ahmet Ertegun tribute live performance. If anybody may get Plant and Page again in a room collectively, although, it might be Dolly Parton.