# Dolly Parton’s Final Recorded Performance Arrives on U2’s “Torn”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dolly-partons-final-recorded-performance-arrives-on-u2s-torn/
- Published: 2026-11-13T14:41:48+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T15:27:49+00:00
- Original publisher: Consequence
- Original article: https://consequence.net/2026/11/dolly-parton-final-recorded-performance-u2-torn/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Dolly Parton’s final vocal recording is a duet with U2.
- “Torn” closes U2’s new album, *Carnaval De Luz*.
- Parton recorded it while ill, shortly before her death.

## Summary

Dolly Parton’s final recorded vocal performance has been released on “Torn”, a duet with U2 that closes their new album, *Carnaval De Luz*. The song matters as the last vocal recording of Parton’s career, made shortly before her death, and as a collaboration she described as potentially “something really special”.

Parton recorded her vocals in Nashville in June, while ill; Bono said she had got out of bed to sing. Co-written by U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid, “Torn” is about fractured family ties, with Daniel Lanois playing pedal steel. A separate country mix by longtime Parton collaborator Kent Wells also premiered, and the release was accompanied by a handwritten note Parton sent Bono.

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