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.