One of the most honored female country singers of all time returns this summer with a much-anticipated album of all-new studio material - Better Day (Dolly Records) - and a world tour bringing her throughout America and then onto the U.K., Europe and Australia. The excitement gets underway when the iconic singer, songwriter, musician, actress and philanthropist unveils the album's soaring first single "Together You & I" with a live performance Thursday, May 26 on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show".

"I wanted to do an album that would be very uplifting and positive, as well as inspirational," says the seven-time Grammy winner who was hailed as "one of our national treasures" by Newsweek in 2008. "Times are hard all over. I think people need to feel better and I thought Better Day was a perfect title because it says hope.'"