It was just very relaxed - that’s the best adjective I can use for the Dave Cobb sessions.” “Dave’s idea is, ‘When she sings, everybody back off, everybody get out of her way.’ We all got in there together and sang and had fun. “It was about five or six musicians,” she says.

The more laid-back feel of the Revisited disc is why McEntire says it’s her favorite of the new trio. Working with Cobb was a new experience for McEntire, whose albums have often been maximalist, cutting-edge productions made for arenas. “By the time the video came along, we were all vaccinated and safe enough to get in the same room together,” McEntire says. As those sessions were completed while Covid raged, Parton wasn’t able to be in the studio, but they made up for it later. Parton’s softer voice brings out an element of fragility that was harder to spot in the original version, like her resolve is almost gone. All-star producer Dave Cobb takes the song down to its basic elements and lets the two singers have a conversation. McEntire and Parton’s version from the Revisited disc is a quieter, more somber affair. Singer Linda Davis was McEntire’s original singing partner, going toe to toe with the star in a thrilling vocal showcase. Originally released as a single in 1993, “Does He Love You” was written by Sandy Knox and Billy Stritch and describes an intense love triangle in such deliciously melodramatic fashion that it could be a soap opera plot. “I’ve sang for her, she’s sang for me, but we’ve never done a duet together. “Isn’t that amazing? Here we are, so far along in our careers we haven’t gotten to sing together,” McEntire tells Rolling Stone. Surprisingly, it’s the first time that McEntire and Parton have recorded a duet, despite the decades of recording between them. Much more than a typical greatest-hits set, the three-disc collection offers 30 new versions of the singer’s best-known songs including “Fancy,” “Why Haven’t I Heard from You,” and “Does He Love You,” repurposed here in stripped-down form as a duet with fellow country legend Dolly Parton.

Reba McEntire takes a look back at some of her biggest songs on the new box set Revived Remixed Revisited, which was released Friday.

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