Dolly Parton sings on "Torn", closing track of U2's new album
The duet with Bono is her last recorded vocal, made in Nashville in June, before she died on Aug. 25.
U2 released *Carnaval De Luz* on Friday, Nov. 13, its 16th studio album and the first with new songs in nine years. It closes with "Torn", a duet between Bono and Dolly Parton that the band calls the last vocal performance she recorded.
Parton cut her part in Nashville, Tennessee, in June. She died Aug. 25, at 80, before the record came out.
"Torn" is the 12th and final track, and the album's fourth single after "Street of Dreams", "Silencio" and "The Greatest Show On Earth". U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid wrote it, and Daniel Lanois plays pedal steel. The band describes it as a country song about broken family ties.
Jacknife Lee produced the album, out on Island Records. A country take on the song, the "Kent Wells Version", came out this week through Big Machine Records.
The record arrives in the band's 50th year and after two surprise EPs early in 2026, *Days of Ash* and *Easter Lily*. It is sold on vinyl, CD and digital download, including deluxe box sets and colored vinyl, and is streaming now.
