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Hello and welcome of the excerpt.

I'm Melissa Ruggierry.

Today is November 30th, 2023,

and this is a special episode of The excerpt. served.

Valley Parton has been a fixture of country music for decades and now she's ready to be a rock star as well.

Fittingly enough, her new album, out now, is called Rockstar.

Singing alongside her on 30 songs are some of the rock world's most

legendary stars, including Paul McCartney, John Fog Fog Fog Fogrety, and Pat Benatar.

Here to tell me how it all came together is Dolly Parton herself.

And Dolly, thank you so much for joining me.

How are you?

Well, I am fun and thank you for having me.

You were talking about all those great names

and I have some wonderful memories of doing this album with them so we can talk about

whatever you want to talk about today.

Tell me a little bit about the construction of the album.

I mean, you announced this about a year ago at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just after that.

How long did it take to wrangle all of these major music stars because I don't think you missed one, or you missed one but we'll talk about him in a second.

Well, I actually took a year to do this album from the time I started recording the song and trying to get all the people together and then

we got to do the mixes and you got to do the mastering and then you got to get the

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