Country listeners will hear Dolly Parton's final recorded vocal performance this week, in a form made specifically for them.

According to Country Insider, 'Torn (Kent Wells Version)' — the country reworking of U2's closing track on 'Carnaval De Luz' — premieres Thursday across stations owned by iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Audacy, Beasley, SummitMedia and Townsquare, plus SiriusXM's The Highway, Y2Kountry and Prime Country and the Music Choice platform.

Big Machine Records is servicing and promoting the single, with the full album arriving Friday via Island Records.

The story Big Country News Connection tells is an unlikely one: Bono originally approached Parton about a different project inspired by Irish folk music, and when she declined the material she offered him 'Torn' instead.

U2 then reshaped the song with Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid, fusing the band's rock identity with Parton's country roots.

According to iHeart's 106.3 The Bear, the ballad is described in a press release as 'a tender country song detailing broken family ties that holds wider resonances,' with lyric lines about brothers turning to strangers and 'every heart is torn.'

Big Country News Connection adds that Bono has said she kept working on the song despite being seriously ill.

Country Insider identifies co-producer Kent Wells as Parton's longtime guitarist and musical director, who also produced her 2023 'Rockstar' album; the original track was produced by Jacknife Lee with Daniel Lanois on pedal steel.

The emotional weight of the duet comes through most sharply in what Bono has said about it. iHeart's 106.3 The Bear quotes his September Rolling Stone remarks: 'When she got ill, she got out of her bed to sing this song. And you can hear that.

And I can't even listen to it now. …She sang her heart out and I cannot believe that's an 80-year-old woman.' For fans, that account reframes the Thursday premiere as a farewell rather than a crossover stunt — the closing track of U2's 16th studio album and its first new record in nearly a decade.

American Songwriter's separate reporting underlines Parton's enduring streaming power even as this final record surfaces: 'Jolene' already sits among the roughly two dozen country songs in Spotify's billions club, and Zac Brown Band's 'Chicken Fried' just became the 23rd, per that outlet.

A farewell performance from an artist with that catalog carries real weight — Country Insider notes the radio premiere is being coordinated across nearly every major country broadcast group simultaneously, a rollout reserved for records the trade believes fans will stop for.

The calendar stacks quickly: the country radio premiere lands Thursday, Nov. 12, 'Carnaval De Luz' arrives Friday, Nov. 13 on Island Records, and the 2026 CMA Awards stage a Dolly Parton tribute on Nov. 18 at Bridgestone Arena. E!

News reports, citing a CMA source, that Taylor Swift will not perform in the tribute, though performers include Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Cody Johnson, Ella Langley, Luke Combs and Megan Moroney.

For a niche audience, the week offers a rare convergence: a final vocal, a country-radio exclusive, and Nashville's biggest night all honoring the same legend.