Beyoncé’s recent album Cowboy Carter, pays tribute to many country music legends, but none more so than Dolly Parton herself.
Ahead of the hotly anticipated album’s release, Parton let it slip that Beyoncé had recorded a canopy of one in all her biggest songs, “Jolene,” in which Parton pleads with the title character, “Please don’t take my man.”
When the album dropped on March 29, people got to listen to not only a canopy of the song, but additionally Parton herself, which appeared like a voicemail before the song in which she calls Beyoncé “Miss Honey B.”
The legend, credited as Dolly P, will be heard on the album in an interlude in which she references Beyoncé’s song “Sorry” about cheating on her husband Jay-Z from the 2016 album Lemonade. In this song, Beyoncé slaps a girl she calls “Becky With The Good Hair.”
In the intro to Beyoncé’s “Jolene,” Parton mentions “that clumsy girl with the pretty hair you sing about” and says it reminds her of “someone I knew once. Except she has flaming locks of auburn hair,” says Parton, referring to Jolene, whom she sings about in her title song.
“Bless her heart. It’s just different colored hair, but it hurts the same,” Parton says.
Beyoncé then delivers her rendition of the song, complete with a twenty first century update in which as a substitute of begging Jolene, she warns her, “I’m warning you, don’t come for my man/Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/Don’t take chances ’cause you think you can “
Where else can we hear Dolly Parton Cowboy Carter?
But these two cases weren’t the only examples of Parton’s influence Cowboy Carter.
Beyoncé recreated the variety of playing pioneered by Parton, in which she clicked her acrylic nails to create a rhythm that allowed her to jot down songs on the road when she did not have a guitar at hand.
Parton famously talked about this method on her eponymous television talk show, interviewing singer Patti LaBelle around 1987. Together they tried out the technique and sang the classic American folk song “Shortn in’ Bread” to it.
“I write a number of songs after I do not have a guitar, and when I’m driving, I’m beating on the dashboard in the automotive while writing a song. But I even have some rhythm that we are able to do with these acrylic nails,” she tells LaBelle, who then joins in, and Parton encourages her to sing “Shortnin’ Bread.”
This moment was also significant due to selection of song, which was to be based on a plantation song. Quite a bit Cowboy Carter pays tribute to the black roots of country music, from using playing styles invented by black musicians to elevating current black country singers.
Beyoncé used Parton’s nail technique in the songs “Riiverdance” and “Tyrant”, in which Parton also appears with one other speaking role.
In “Tyrant,” Parton calls Beyoncé “Cowboy Carter” and tells her to “strike a match and light up that coffee shop!”
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