Dolly Parton says she has a rock album on the way – but that it won't be accompanied with a music tour.
, the Grammy award-winning music artist said that she's working on a rock 'n' roll record as well, an endeavor she embarked on after she was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the spring. , saying she didn't think she'd earned the right to be nominated since she had never recorded a rock album.
"I do hope the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again – if I'm ever worthy," she said in a statement in March."This has, however, inspired me to put out a hopefully great rock n' roll album at some point in the future, which I have always wanted to do.
"I had to do a rock album, because if I'm going to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I'm going to by God earn it! That's my attitude toward it. There's no way I'm not going to do an album, so people can see that I could and can do it," she said."...I even wrote a song about the whole situation to sing at the ceremony. A fine, cute little rock 'n' roll song that'll probably go on the rock 'n' roll album. It's called 'Rockin.
But even with her first rock album on the way, Parton said it won't be accompanied by a tour. She said she'll do"special shows here and there," but,"I do not think I will ever tour again." "I have no intention of going on a full-blown tour anymore. I've done that my whole life, and it takes so much time and energy," she said, adding that she wants to stay closer to home with her husband, as they are both"getting older now.
Parton and her husband, Carl Dean, have known each other since 1964, when they met outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat on the first day Parton had moved to Nashville, Tennessee. He"swept her off her feet" and the couple married two years later. They have been"I don't want to be gone for four or five weeks at a time. Something could happen," she said."I would not feel right about that, if I were gone and somebody needed me.
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