Linda Ronstadt’s 1999 collaboration with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris is hitting the charts decades after its release.
The first-ever chart success comes weeks after Parton’s death at the age of 80 following a brief battle with cancer.
“After the Gold Rush” made a rare debut at No. 19 on the Digital Song Sales chart for the week of Sept. 5, 2026, with Forbes citing Luminate reporting that the track had just under 1,800 copies purchased digitally across iTunes, Amazon and more.
Ronstadt recorded the famous cover of Neil Young’s song of the same name with Parton and Harris for their collaborative album Trio II.
It won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 2000, while Rolling Stone ranked Young’s tune number 323 on the 2021 edition of the publication’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
According to Billboard, Trio was Parton’s first top-10 album on the all-genre Billboard 200, reaching No. 6 in 1987. The supergroup followed it up with Trio II, which hit No. 4 on Top Country Albums in 1999.
The trio of legendary singers’ 1999 performance on The Late Show with David Letterman was praised for delivering one of the greatest harmonies of all time.
In 2019, Parton joined forces with Miley Cyrus and Maren Morris to perform the tune at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, singing an acoustic, three-part harmonized version as part of a star-studded tribute. It was her first appearance at the award show since 2001—and for a good reason—as she was being honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year.
Prior to recording the environmentalism song, Parton revealed they asked for insight into the cryptic lyrics, as SongFacts reports: “When we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what it meant, and they didn’t know. So we called Neil Young, and he didn’t know. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, ‘Hell, I don’t know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I’d taken.'”
“I thought that was so funny. I think it’s about the Second Coming or the invasion of aliens or both,” Parton said, per American Songwriter.
Following her death, Parton’s collection of music has been dominating charts, with “I Will Always Love You” taking the No. 1 spot on the Digital Song Sales chart, followed by “Jolene” at No. 2, “9 to 5” at No. 3, a re-entry of “Islands in the Sun” at No. 4 and “Here You Come Again” rounding out the top 5.
“Coat of Many Colors” takes the 6th spot, with Parton’s collaboration with Brad Paisley on “When I Get Where I’m Going” in 7th place, while “Light Of A Clear Blue Morning” featuring Cyrus, Lainey Wilson, Queen Latifah & Reba McEntire comes in at No. 9.
And that’s just the top 10, with more of her catalog in the Top 25.
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