The Seeker (Dolly Parton song)

"The Seeker"
Single by Dolly Parton
from the album Dolly
B-side	"Love With Feeling"
Released	May 19, 1975
Recorded	December 9, 1974
Genre	Country
Length	3:02 3:14 (2007 edited reissue)
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Dolly Parton
Producer(s)	Bob Ferguson
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"The Bargain Store" (1975) "The Seeker" (1975) "We Used To" (1976)

"The Seeker" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released as the first single from Parton's 1975 album, Dolly, and was also a top ten single on the U.S. country charts. A spiritual, which Parton described as her "talk with God", the song was released as a single in July 1975, just missing the top spot on the U.S. country singles chart; it peaked at #2.^[1]

Two decades later, Parton rerecorded the song for her 1995 album Something Special. Nelly Furtado covered this song for the film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom.^[2] Merle Haggard who, in his 1981 autobiography, Sing Me Back Home, would confess his infatuation with Parton, also recorded the song. The British band The New Seekers recorded a version of the song in 1976.