Overview
- Parton issued the re-recorded single and studio-shot video on Jan. 16 as part of her 80th-birthday observance.
- The arrangement features David Foster on piano and The Christ Church Choir on background vocals, with production by Parton and Kent Wells and mixing by Chris Lord-Alge.
- Parton described the project as a message of hope and an intergenerational collaboration that revisits a song she first wrote in 1976.
- Miley Cyrus, Parton’s goddaughter, joins Lainey Wilson, Queen Latifah and Reba McEntire in trading verses on the new rendition.
- Parton will not attend the Jan. 17 Grand Ole Opry tribute and has limited appearances while receiving treatments she has called “nothing major,” saying she is “not dying.”