Kacey Musgraves Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton With ‘Rainbow’ & ‘Here You Come Again’ Live in Boston

Kacey Musgraves dedicated her emotional Golden Hour ballad “Rainbow,” as well as a cover of “Here You Come Again,” to Dolly Parton in Boston on Friday (Aug.

28).

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“It’s what a humanitarian [she was],” Musgraves said.

“Someone always looking out for someone else, looking out for the underdog, even when it probably wasn’t easy, even when it didn’t benefit her career.

We can all learn a lot from someone like that.” “She’s woven into the fabric of who we’ve always been, so it just feels extra sad.

Let’s all sing this together for her memory, OK?” she suggested, leading the crowd in a sweet sing-along of “Rainbow,” the closing track from Musgraves’ Grammy Award-winning 2018 album, Golden Hour .

Photos of Parton, who passed away on Aug.

25 after a brief battle with cancer , were displayed on the big screen behind Musgraves as the room paid tribute to her, singing, “There’s always been a rainbow hangin’ over your head.” The next song on Musgraves’ set list at Friday’s show was a performance of “Here You Come Again,” off of Parton’s 1977 studio album of the same name.

“Here You Come Again” was Parton’s earliest pop crossover hit, peaking at No.

3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978.

In fact, just two other recordings from Dolly have topped its success on the all-genre ranking: “9 to 5” and her Kenny Rogers duet “Islands in the Stream,” which both became Hot 100 No.

1s in the early 1980s.

Though Parton was a prolific songwriter, “Here You Come Again” was penned by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.