Dolly Parton got rejected by Mick Jagger — “but it’s all right now.”
The country music legend, 77, is releasing a new album “Rockstar” later this year and desperately wanted Jagger, 79, to do a duet with her for the record.
“I wanted Mick Jagger so bad, because my husband [Carl Thomas Dean] loves him,” Parton told the Daily Mail.
The “9 to 5” crooner revealed she wanted the Rolling Stones frontman to sing his 1965 tune “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”
However, she explained that Jagger “wanted something new and different, which I don’t blame him for.”
“We kept looking for the right song. He was doing an album in L.A., and I was doing stuff in Nashville, and I kept missing him, but he wanted to do it,” Parton said.
The Grammy winner also described to the outlet how touring is beginning to take its toll on her.
Parton added that she doesn’t “want to be far away from home” with concert touring.
She admitted: “It’s always been taxing. The reason I don’t tour now is because I don’t want to be that far away from home, we’re getting older and I’ve got a lot of business that I do and the movies that I do.”
Her last music trip was her 2016 Pure and Simple Tour which took her across Canada and the United States.
Her upcoming “Rockstar” compilation is her 49th album and is her first rock ‘n’ roll one to date. It contains nine original songs and 21 covers of other hit singles.
Parton collaborated with a medley of musicians for the record, including Sting, Kid Rock, Chris Stapleton and Miley Cyrus.
She further gushed over her new rockin’ sound, appearing at a London press conference on Thursday.
The Tennessee native discussed how she wanted to take a break from her normal country tunes and try something distinct.
“I’ve lived my whole life mainly in country music and I love it,” she said, according to Reuters.
“This was just a whole new thing for me and I’ve just really put my heart and soul into it and I’d like to think it’s some of the best work I’ve ever done,” the “Steel Magnolias” actress said.
“I enjoy getting to do something besides my own songs or just country songs. I wanted to see what I could do for me and for the audience.”
