Dolly Parton wants to re-record Stairway To Heaven with Plant and Page

01 November 2022

Dolly Parton says that she's "looking forward" to recording her first ever rock album, and she'd like former LED ZEPPELIN duo Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to join her on a planned re-recording of Stairway To Heaven, a song she originally covered in a bluegrass style on her 2002 album Halos & Horns.

Back in February, reacting to her nomination for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Parton teased the prospect of making a rock n' roll record if she was inducted.

"I’m not expecting that I’ll get in," she told Billboard. "But if I do, I’ll immediately, next year, have to put out a great rock ’n’ roll album – which I’ve wanted to do for years, like a Linda Ronstadt or Heart kind of thing. So this may have been just a God-wink for me to go ahead and do that."

PIXIES/NIRVANA/Page & Plant producer Steve Albini subsequently offered his services to record the album.