<p id=”par-1_70″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/dolly-parton/”>Dolly Parton</a> was incredibly proud of an early collaboration with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, and she later had the opportunity to work with her friends on an <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>album</a>. Their record <em>Trio</em> received widespread acclaim, prompting them to work on a follow-up. On this album, it was not smooth sailing. The women spent so much time bickering that Parton eventually threw her hands up and told them to sue her.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-and-two-friends-fought-over-an-album”>Dolly Parton and two friends fought over an album</h2>
<p id=”par-2_36″>While <em>Trio</em> was a success, the follow up, <em>Trio II</em>, hit bump after <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-linda-ronstadts-bickering-nearly-derailed-awaited-album.html/”>bump in the road</a>. Ronstadt believed Parton was completely unreliable, and Parton said Rondstadt took an agonizing amount of time in the studio.</p>
<p id=”par-3_39″>“Ronstadt loves to work in the studio and works so slow, it drives me nuts,” Parton told Goldmine, per the book <em><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Dolly-Alanna-Nash/dp/0891695230″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Dolly: The Biography</a> </em>by Alanna Nash. “I wanted to say, ‘Wake up, b****, I got stuff to do.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_35″>Ronstadt’s pace in the studio may have irritated Parton, but the latter’s packed schedule made <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/dolly-parton-linda-ronstadt-hard-time-recording-songs-together.html/”>recording almost impossible</a>. She said she “cried and begged” Ronstadt and Harris to push back the release, but they refused.</p>
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<p id=”par-5_31″>“They pitched a fit and dumped the greatest project ever. . . . It got into a power play,” Parton said. “I was made to feel hurt, insulted, burdened with guilt.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_11″>Parton said she eventually gave up trying to save the album.</p>
<p id=”par-7_28″>“I would have lived up to my word, but my word wasn’t good enough for them,” she said. “Finally, I just said, ‘The hell with it, sue me.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_13″>While they began recording in 1994, the album didn’t come out until 1999.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-linda-ronstadt-spoke-about-the-frustration-of-working-with-the-i-will-always-love-you-singer”>Linda Ronstadt spoke about the frustration of working with the ‘I Will Always Love You’ singer</h2>
<p id=”par-9_34″>Ronstadt had a major problem with Parton during the recording process. She said Parton gave her word that she’d block out time to record, but went back on it for a seemingly trivial project.</p>
<p id=”par-10_34″>“I showed up, Emmy showed up, and the night before we started, Dolly sent us a fax, saying there was something wrong with her infomercial and she had to go back for 10 days.”</p>
<p id=”par-11_18″>Parton committed time to record the album again, but she canceled again. The last-minute cancellation cost them $20,000.</p>
<p id=”par-12_61″>“It was twenty grand every time we got one of these faxes. And we couldn’t get her on the phone,” Ronstadt said. “Then she put out her live record [<em>Heartsongs: Live from Home</em>] right on top of our release schedule, at the beginning of August. She said it was going to sell so good and would help the <em>Trio</em> record sell.”</p>
<p id=”par-13_17″>Parton eventually finished recording her parts, but Ronstadt was left with a bad taste in her mouth.</p>
<p id=”par-14_14″>“I can’t work with her,” Ronstadt said. “She didn’t represent herself as being reliable.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-later-said-she-and-her-friends-were-bickering-because-of-menopause”>Dolly Parton later said she and her friends were bickering because of menopause</h2>
<p id=”par-15_36″>The album finally came out in 1999, to critical acclaim. Upon reflection, Parton didn’t <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/linda-ronstadt-shared-dolly-parton-better-anyone-known.html/”>hold onto any resentment</a>. She joked that the problems between herself, Ronstadt, and Harris were a result of menopause, not genuine animosity.</p>
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<p id=”par-16_47″>“I realized we’re now just a bunch of old crotchety, cranky women, set in our ways and getting up there ‘round fifty, goin’ through change-of-life mood swings. You never know a true feeling from a hot flash. I thought, ‘I don’t need this. I ain’t that old.’”</p>