“I’ve been doing that throughout my life, and it takes a lot of time and effort. With my husband, I prefer to stay a little closer to home. I don’t want to go away for four or five weeks at a time because we are getting older. Something might occur. If I were gone and someone needed me, I wouldn’t feel great about that. Or I would feel horrible if I had to end a tour early because someone at home needed me and I couldn’t leave the fans behind.”

The singer asserts that her most recent musical works will also fall under the rock n’ roll category for her husband. Actually, this past May, Parton received a nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“Well, no better time to do it,” I reasoned when I learned that I had been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’d wanted to do it forever. For years I’ve thought, “One of these days I’d like to do an album basically just for him, just to kind of do it,” because my husband is a huge hard rock ‘n’ roll lover.

The singer is apparently working on a Christmas special for NBC this year while she continues to finish her new album. As she clarified:

Have fun, Dolly! You have been very generous to us! Just unwind and take it all in right now! We’ll cherish you forever.