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Bill Anderson recruited a fellow Country Music Hall of Fame member for a new country ballad. Anderson and Dolly Parton premiered a music video for their heartfelt song with a classic country sound, “Someday It’ll All Make Sense.”
“Working with my ol’ buddy Bill Anderson was the most meaningful fun I’ve had in years,” Parton said in a statement. “I love the song we sang, I love how we sounded together on it and getting to do a video with him was just icing on the cake. I hope the fans enjoy it as much as we enjoyed being together on it.”
Anderson co-wrote the duet with Bobby Tomberlin and Ryan Larkins. He brought the song to life with a video directed by Trey Fanjoy, who has worked with Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, George Strait and others, according to a press release from Universal Music Group. “Someday It’ll All Make Sense” appears on Anderson’s As Far As I Can See: The Best Of, a 16-track collection that released via MCA Records last month. It includes some of his most beloved songs, like “City Lights,” “Still,” “Po’ Folks,” “The Tip Of My Fingers,” and “Sometimes.” The album shares a name — inspired by “City Lights” — with Anderson’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit, which remains on display through March 19, 2023. Anderson and Parton sing on their new collaboration:
“Someday the picture will come into focus/ And we’ll see it all plain and clear/ When we come together in the place He has for us/ Where the pain and the hurt disappear/ Someday we’ll laugh at these roads that we’ve traveled/ I am completely convinced/ That hope never dies or goes out of fashion/ Someday it’ll all make sense”
That duet joins Anderson’s first-ever collaboration with Parton, “an incredibly rare demo of ‘If It Is All The Same To You,’” which they recorded in 1964 and released in 1969.
“Hopefully, our song can help bring a bit of levity to a world that seems upside down and sideways so much of the time these days,” Anderson said in a statement. “If it can, music will have once again proven itself to be the optimal healer.”
Listen to the song here: