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Bad Wolves will be releasing a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” on August 31. Notably, the late great country singer was set to guest on the track prior to her death. The single will now serve as a charity release for her Imagination Library book gifting program.

Drummer John Boecklin commented:

“Our new singer is a big fan of Dolly and had posted a bunch of videos of her covering ‘Jolene.’ So, we decided to make a heavy metal cover version for our next album. On hearing our version, our label CEO Dan Waite sent the finished demo to Dolly‘s manager Danny Nozell with a request for Dolly to guest feature on our version.

We heard back that Danny had played the track to Dolly, and that Dolly loved our version, and that Dolly was going to go into the studio and add her vocals very soon. We then sent over the stems for Dolly’s studio engineers to work with. Like everyone, we were devastated of this week’s news of Dolly’s passing.We will honor Dolly’s incredible legacy by donating proceeds from ‘Jolene’ to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

With ‘Jolene,’ being able to use our platform to help deliver critical funding to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, we know that we can contribute to Dolly‘s vision of giving access to books and improving literacy.

Our thoughts are with Dolly‘s extended family, manager Danny Nozell, and all of the many thousands of people she touched in her extraordinary life who are grieving her passing.”