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Dolly Parton is going to be covering tons of classic songs on her forthcoming album, Rockstar. Not only is she covering them, she is covering some of them alongside the people who actually wrote and recorded the songs!No doubt the two biggest stars that will be featured on the album are Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on her version of The Beatles’ “Let It Be.”Dolly said to Absolute Radio:

“I’ve always loved that song… I recorded the song without them and then I thought, ‘Wow. Wouldn’t it be great if Paul McCartney would agree to play piano and sing on it?!’ And then I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it even be greater to have Ringo Starr — because that’s the last of The Beatles — play on that track?!’ … “I just asked if they’d do it and they said, ‘Yeah,’ and I was excited to death. They were so generous and so sweet about it.”

But Dolly wasn’t as lucky in her attempt to have Mick Jagger on to sing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

“I wanted Mick Jagger so bad, because my husband loves him, but he wanted to do ‘something new and different.’ We kept looking for the right song, but unfortunately 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.”

And the one person who is IMPOSSIBLE to get, she got — the late Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant on “Free Bird.”

“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow [Judy] allowed us to use his voice on our record… I was so happy we got to use his real voice. They just dropped it in the way they manipulate those things now. It made it so special. I get chills every time I hear it. I’d already sung my version, and I didn’t know his voice enough, but then our phrasing turned out to be almost just exact when we were singing on the song! That’s such a classic… I felt really honored to get to sing ‘Free Bird’ … I hope people will appreciate my version of them.”

Among her other special guests on the album are Sting, Chris Stapleton, Pink, Richie Sambora, John Fogerty, Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks and others.

Rockstar will be out on November 17th.