"I don’t really feel that I've earned that proper,” the musician mentioned on social media on Monday. “I actually are not looking for votes cut up due to me."
Dolly Parton is bowing out of her nomination for induction into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
“Although I’m extraordinarily flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, I don’t really feel that I've earned that proper,” Parton mentioned on social media on Monday (March 14). “I actually are not looking for votes cut up due to me, so I need to respectfully bow out.”
The nomination was Parton’s first for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, with the singer-songwriter being nominated alongside artists together with Beck, Devo, Kate Bush, Eminem, Rage Towards the Machine, Carly Simon and others.
“I do hope the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame will perceive and will probably be keen to think about me once more–if I’m ever worthy. This has, nonetheless, impressed me to place out a hopefully nice rock n’ roll album in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, which I've at all times needed to do!”
Parton additionally famous that her husband Carl Dean is a rock n’ roll fan, saying, “He at all times inspired me to do one.”
She ended her observe by providing encouragement to all of this yr’s Rock Corridor nominees. “I want the entire nominees good luck and thanks once more for the praise. Rock on!”
Nation artists who've beforehand been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame embrace Chet Atkins, Johnny Money, Jimmie Rodgers and extra.
This isn’t the primary time Parton has bowed out of a extremely esteemed honor. Final yr, Parton requested that Tennessee lawmakers not think about a invoice that may enable a statue of the legendary singer-songwriter to be constructed on the grounds of the state Capitol.
“I need to thank the Tennessee legislature for his or her consideration of a invoice to erect a statue of me on the Capitol grounds,” Parton mentioned on her social media pages on the time. “I'm honored and humbled by their intention however I've requested the leaders of the state legislature to take away the invoice from any and all consideration.”
Throughout an interview with NBC’s Right now final yr, Parton additionally revealed that she was twice supplied the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and needed to flip down the provide each occasions — first as a result of her husband had been sick, and the second time she was not capable of journey because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parton just lately hosted the Academy of Nation Music Awards alongside Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, and launched her first novel, Run, Rose, Run, which she wrote with creator James Patterson.
This story first appeared on billboard.com