Classic Rock Issue 321 (December 2023) Dolly Parton

Classic Rock Issue 321 (December 2023) Dolly Parton The Queen Of Country? On the cover of Classic Rock?! Hell yeah! Full disclosure: I’m a long-time Dolly Parton fan, but never in a million years did I think that we’d ever have the opportunity to legitimately put her on the cover of Classic Rock. But sometimes the world really does manage to surprise you. Those who are partial to Ms Parton’s charms know all too well that she’s been a rock star all along, but this year she has gone one louder and firmly cemented her high-voltage rock’n’roll credentials. A nomination for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (an accolade she initially wanted to decline, as she didn’t feel she deserved it) began a series of events that resulted in her new album Rockstar. And her collaborators on its 30 (yes 30!) tracks truly read like a Who’s Who of rock’s great and good. Dolly (and some of those collaborators) tell us all about it. It’s not just Dolly’s album that’s rock star-studded, though, elsewhere in this