Hi, this is Pooja Patel, editor-in-chief at Pitchfork and host of the Pitchwork Review.

We're taking a break for the holiday, so we're sharing an episode from our friends at the New Yorker

Radio Hour. In the episode, New Yorker contributor Emily Lorty talks to Dolly Parton about her

thoughts on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

taking chances with her new album, and her storied musical career.

The Pitchfork Review will be back next week with an interview between Jeff Tweedy and Pitchfork Sam Sadomsky.

Happy New Year.

Music Happy New Year. Over the last six decades,

Dolly Parton has become an icon in country music

and one of the most beloved musicians anywhere in the world.

She just released her 49th solo studio album, and it's the

highest charting album of her career. And yet with all that behind her, when she was inducted into the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, she did so with a certain sense of trepidation, even a little

embarrassment.

Oh, I'll tell you what.

This is a very, very, very special night for me.

I'm sure a lot of you knew that back when they said they were going to put me in the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I didn't really feel like I had done enough to deserve that.

Flash forward one year in Dolly Parton, age 77, has just released her first rock album.

The album mixes covers from the rock and roll canon, along with Parton's original songs like the title

track, Rockstar.

Emily Lorty is a music writer based in Nashville,

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