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UK radio promo CD. Dolly / Sony Music (promo CD) (2015)
"Unlikely Angel" is a single by Dolly Parton. It was released on February 16, 2015, in the UK by Dolly Records and Sony Music as the fourth and final single from her forty-fourth solo studio album, Blue Smoke. It was written by Dolly and produced by Kent Wells. Dolly wrote the song in 1996 for the CBS television movie of the same name. No soundtrack album was released, so its inclusion on Blue Smoke marked the song's first commercial release.

Track listing

  • Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton) 3:23

Recording

"Unlikely Angel" was recorded at Kent Wells Productions in Franklin, Tennessee.

Audio

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Blue Smoke liner notes.
Performance
  • Becky Isaacs Bowman – background vocals
  • Richard Dennison – background vocals
  • ​Vicki Hampton – background vocals
  • Sonya Isaacs – background vocals
  • Randy Kohrs – dobro
  • Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle, mandolin
  • Jennifer O'Brien – background vocals
  • Dolly Parton – lead vocals
  • Jay Weaver – upright bass
  • Kent Wells – acoustic guitar, drum programming
Production
  • Kyle Dickinson – recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Patrick Murphy – recording, mixing
  • Taylor Tharpe – recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Kent Wells – producer
  • Christine Winslow – production assistant