Dolly Parton recorded a secret song to be released after her death
Dolly Parton said the track was written as her last and stored with a player in a vault that opens in 2045, People reported.
- Country music icon Dolly Parton died on Tuesday at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee, her nephew Bryan Seaver announced. Parton passed away after a brief battle with cancer.
- Before her death, Parton had been "dealing with some health issues" earlier this year while caring for her late husband, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025 at age 82.
- Tucked into a wooden vault at Dollywood's DreamMore Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, is an unreleased Parton song called "My Place in History," written to be her last.
- The capsule is scheduled to open for what would be Parton's 100th birthday on January 19, 2046, though she previously worried the recording might "disintegrate and nobody will ever hear it."
- Parton leaves a massive legacy with hundreds of songs, including classics "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors," and "I Will Always Love You," totaling more than 100 million worldwide sales and more than 1 billion online streams.
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Dolly Parton revealed a plan for new music to be released posthumously 6 years before her death
The Queen of Country was hospitalized days before her death on Aug. 25 at age 80.Dolly Parton at SXSW Conference And Festival in Austin in March 2022Credit: Rick Kern/FilmMagicKey PointsDolly Parton teased new music being released posthumously years ago.“And I think as long as time lasts, people will be doing music all kinds of different ways,” Parton said in 2020.The Queen of Country’s death was announced on Aug. 25. She was 80.New Dolly Parton…
The secret Dolly Parton song that was set to be released after her death
The allure of time capsules isn’t exactly a secret. The general premise is simple: select an idea, artifact or piece of art, seal it away, and rediscover it sometime in the future. It’s understandably been the centrepiece of many fictional stories because, well, there’s something morbidly fascinating about posthumous revelations. In real life, however, the notion is a bit more complicated. This was certainly the case for the late Dolly Parton, w…
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