In the brand new issue of Classic Rock magazine, we talk to Dolly Parton about her star-studded rock album, Rockstar. As if the idea of a country legend making a rock album wasn’t enough, she’s enlisted a host of famous rock musicians to appear on it.
One of these guests is Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, who duets with Dolly on the track Bygones. Geographically and culturally, it’s a long way from the Midlands metal circuit to country music’s epicentre in Nashville, but with Rob and Dolly Parton’s joint vocals marking one of the high points of the Rockstar album, the Priest frontman says they share more common ground than you might think. This is how one of the year’s most unlikely collaborations happened.
