The "Choosin' Texas" star offered a fiery rendition of the country legend's 1974 hit during the CMA's I Will Always Love You tribute

Leave it to country’s current record holder to tackle one of Dolly Parton ’s most famous (and frequently covered ) songs. During Wednesday night’s CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton , Ella Langley offered her take on the 1974 hit “Jolene,” which the star first performed at her Auburn, Alabama, concert shortly after Parton’s death . Following an introduction from Katy Perry (who called Parton “the blueprint”), Langley offered a smoldering version of the classic that paid tribute to Parton’s original arrangement.

It’s an appropriate song choice for Langley, who broke the Billboard Hot 100 chart record with “ Choosin’ Texas ,” a song about losing her man to the wiles of another — not too unlike the premise of “Jolene,” which Parton wrote when she saw her husband, Carl Dean, interact with an attractive woman at a bank.

“She got this terrible crush…