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\n\tAlmost all of the tracks on the years-in-the-making, all-star tribute album Where the Soul Never Dies: Celebrating 80 Years of The Stanley Brothers<\/a><\/em>, due Oct. 16, were recorded live in the studio, but the album\u2019s producers made an exception for Dolly Parton<\/a>. During a Covid surge circa 2022, Parton was taking no chances, so she recorded her vocal for the traditional song \u201cBound to Ride\u201d (which the Stanley Brothers helped popularize with a 1964 recording) alone at her own studio. The virtuoso musicians known as the First Ladies of Bluegrass earlier laid down a backing track for her on their own, though you\u2019d never know it by the playful vibrancy of her performance. <\/p>\n \n\tNow, two weeks after Parton\u2019s death<\/a> at age 80, the song is her first posthumous release, taking her back to her deepest mountain roots. (Click here<\/a> to preorder and presave the album, and check out the single below.)<\/p>\n \n