Dolly Parton Talks Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter Tour & ‘Jolene’ Revamp


Dolly Parton might just saddle up with Beyoncé on the Cowboy Carter Tour, with the country icon revealing she’s not opposed to sharing the stage with the pop star at one of the latter’s shows this year.

Following the pair’s collaborations on Bey’s Cowboy Carter, Parton reacted to the possibility of performing alongside the Destiny’s Child alum in an interview with HuffPost published Thursday (May 22). “You never know ― anything is possible!” the “9 to 5” singer said.

“Because she really is doing great with that [tour],” Parton added of Bey’s Cowboy Carter trek, which kicked off April 28 in Los Angeles.

The interview comes more than a year after Cowboy Carter dropped, showcasing the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer as she embraced her Southern roots and tinkered with the country genre. Featuring a spoken interlude from Parton, the album spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won both best country album and album of the year at the 2025 Grammys.

The LP also featured a new take on the Dollywood founder’s smash hit “Jolene,” with Bey shaking up the lyrics to say, “I’m warning you, don’t come for my man” instead of the original, “I’m begging of you, please don’t take my man.”

“I was very honored that she wanted to do her version of ‘Jolene,’” Parton told the publication. “That’s all a great compliment to me, when somebody wants to do my songs in any version.”

“I was very amused by her take on that, and I got a big kick out of that,” she continued. “She’s not gonna sit back and say, ‘Oh please don’t take my man.’ She’s gonna kick some a–!”

Following stops in L.A. and, most recently, Chicago, Beyoncé is gearing up to play five nights at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. She’ll then spend June touring through England and France before circling back through the United States.

Parton’s new interview also comes as she’s gearing up to publish a new memoir, Star Of The Show: My Life On Stage, on Nov. 11. On a more personal front, the legend also recently lost her husband of 60 years, Carl Dean.

“It’s a big adjustment, just trying to change patterns and habits,” she said of her grief in an interview with TODAY earlier in May. “I’ll do fine, and I’m very involved in my work, and that’s been the best thing that could happen to me. But I’ll always miss him, of course, and always love him.”



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