New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Iconic singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist
Dolly Parton is proud to announce her latest recording endeavor, a partnership between her own label Dolly Records and Sony Masterworks.
The label deal will launch her new album Blue Smoke in New Zealand/Australia on January 31, 2014, to coincide with her international Blue Smoke World Tour which will hit New Zealand, Australia in February. In addition, Blue Smoke will be released in the United States and
Europe in May 2014, in advance of the Blue Smoke World Tour hitting England, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark,Germany, Norway and Sweden.
"We at Masterworks think that Blue Smoke sits with Dolly Parton's very best recorded work, as global audiences will discover when she begins her world tour in January 2014. We're very happy to be associated with this great American music artist," says Bogdan Roscic , President of Sony Masterworks.
Dolly is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach number 1 on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years. All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during her Hall of Fame career have reportedly topped a staggering 100 million records world-wide. She has garnered 7 Grammy Awards, 10 Country
Music Association Awards, 5 Academy of Country
Music Awards, 3 American
Music Awards and is one of only five female artists to win the Country
Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award.
As a zenith crown to the dreams of country music that originally brought her to Nashville, Dolly was inducted as a member of the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 1999. And the litany goes on.
Dolly's career has spanned nearly five decades and is showing no signs of slowing down. An internationally-renowned superstar, the iconic and irrepressible Parton has contributed countless treasures to the worlds of music, film and television. Some of her hit films have included Nine to Five, Steel Magnolias, The Best
Little Whorehouse in
Texas and Rhinestone . Parton received two Oscar nominations - one for writing the title tune to Nine to Five and the other for Travelin' Thru from the film Transamerica.
