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Dolly Parton Releases ‘Light of a Clear Blue Morning’ With Miley Cyrus, Lainey Wilson, Queen Latifah and Reba McEntire

Net proceeds support pediatric cancer research at Vanderbilt’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital.

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.”