Dolly Parton's New Release Scheduled End of June Now

Dolly Parton’s Better Day now has a June 28 release date set in stone. Her much-anticipated album of all-new studio material will be released on her own Dolly Records distributed through Warner Music Nashville. To coincide with the album’s release, DOLLY will launch a world tour bringing her throughout America and then onto the U.K. and Europe in August and September, then Australia in November in support of the new album. Better Day is the follow-up to DOLLY’s critically acclaimed and successful 2008 Backwoods Barbie album. Featuring 12 original DOLLY compositions, Better Day marks the fourth release on the independent label.

 

First up, the iconic singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist will unveil the album’s soaring first single “Together You & I” with a live performance airing Friday, May 27 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as the song simultaneously arrives at radio. The song’s video--shot this week in Nashville by director Trey Fanjoy--will debut shortly thereafter.

 

On the live front, the Better Day world tour launches July 17 in Knoxville in her home state of Tennessee and will be highlighted by two shows (July 22 and 23) at the historic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. After wrapping in the U.S. August 3, the tour moves overseas starting August 20 and will feature a pair of shows (September 7 and 8) at the O2 Arena in London, the venue where DOLLY recorded and filmed Live From London (Dolly Records), her widely praised 2009 two-disc DVD/CD set that included songs from Backwoods Barbie alongside her many classic hits.

 

Here’s the full Better Day track listing:

 

In The Meantime

 

Just Leaving

 

Missing You

 

Together You & I

 

Country Is

 

Holding Everything

 

The Sacrifice

 

I Just Might

 

Better Day

 

Shine Like The Sun

 

Get Out

 

Let Love Grow

 

 

DOLLY’s U.S. tour dates are as follows:

 

DATE          CITY                  VENUE

 

Sun   7/17 Knoxville, TN       U. of Tennessee/Thompson Boling Arena

 

Tue   7/19 Dallas, TX            Verizon Theatre Grand Prairie      

 

Wed 7/20 Albuquerque, NM Sandia Casino   

 

Fri     7/22 Los Angeles, CA   Hollywood Bowl 

 

Sat    7/23 Los Angeles, CA   Hollywood Bowl 

 

Sun   7/24 Concord, CA        Concord Pavilion

 

Wed 7/27 Prior Lake, MN     Mystic Lake Casino     

 

Thu   7/28 Chicago, IL          Rosemont Theater      

 

Sat    7/30 Wallingford, CT    Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre  

 

Sun   7/31 Vienna, VA          Wolf Trap 

 

Tue   8/2    Durham, NC        Durham Performing Arts Center   

 

Wed 8/3    Alpharetta, GA    Verizon Wireless Amphitheater @ Encore Park