Ricky Skaggs is recalling how he and Dolly Parton prayed at the altar of a tiny church rebuilt in her backyard before recording the country comeback album that would help return her to the top of the charts.During an interview with Fox News Digital, the 72-year-old bluegrass and country star remembered working on 1989's "White Limozeen" with the late music icon, who died on Aug.25 at the age of 80.Prior to making "White Limozeen," Skaggs told Fox News Digital that he visited Parton at her home in Nashville where the two shared a private, faith-filled moment.DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY"She took me out in the backyard and showed me this little church that she used to go to when she was a kid up in East Tennessee.
They had torn it down and they numbered all the slats and all the flooring and everything like that.They brought it down to her backyard and rebuilt it into a beautiful little church," Skaggs recalled.Ricky Skaggs recalled praying with Dolly Parton before recording her hit comeback country album.
(Andrew Lipovsky/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images; Gary Miller/Getty Images)"She wanted me to go in," he continued."We went in there and they had a little piano in there and a little altar, just like the old Baptist churches in the mountains.
So we got up by the altar and just started praying after talking in there for a while about our faith.And we asked God’s hand to be on this record, that he would bless it, bless the musicians, bless all the singers."CARRIE UNDERWOOD HONORS DOLLY PARTON'S FAITH AND LEGACY DURING EMOTIONAL CONCERT TRIBUTE"I just never have forgotten just the power of that day," Skaggs added.
"That whole day was just wonderful.It showed me the kind of woman she was."Skaggs recalled how he teamed up with Parton on "White Limozeen" after she invited him to produce the album following an appearance by the singer and his country band on her Los Ange...