John Mayer has paid tribute to Dolly Parton with an emotional instrumental rendition of I Will All the time Love You.

The guitarist carried out the nation traditional throughout his SiriusXM live performance on the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, New York, on 26 August, a day after information broke of Parton’s loss of life.

Mayer labored the tune into the intro of Gravity, taking part in Parton’s acquainted melody on his PRS Useless Spec Silver Sky and giving it a bluesy spin of his personal earlier than shifting into his personal tune.

Earlier than the present, Mayer additionally mirrored on Parton’s loss of life and the extraordinary response to her passing, notably the best way her music introduced folks collectively.

“I believe Dolly can be actually completely satisfied to see that on the day of her passing, the world got here collectively in a manner that it hadn’t in a really very long time to have fun somebody,” he says.

“I don’t know that there are a lot of folks on this world [that are] left that may galvanise a really fractured world to return collectively and share love for one particular person. When everybody’s loving one particular person on the identical time, it’s all people loving on the identical time, which has this form of aspect impact of feeling one another’s love when that occurs.”

“That is what a life well-lived appears like, seems like, and seems like,” Mayer continues, describing her profession as a “sensible, elegant, gifted, full creative rendering”.

“That is the way you give your life to the factor you like.”

Parton, who died aged 80, was one of the crucial celebrated songwriters and performers of her era. I Will All the time Love You was written and recorded by Parton in 1973, turning into certainly one of her signature songs earlier than taking up a wholly new life by means of Whitney Houston’s vastly profitable 1992 cowl for The Bodyguard.

Watch Mayer’s tribute beneath.