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Ringo Starr Returns With A Masterpiece 🥁💿

Ringo Starr Returns With A Masterpiece 🥁💿

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 See this week's hot Beatles Memorabilia Auctions: https://wp.me/P2x2Mt-k56 , an affiliate link. There’s something improbable about the best chapter of Ringo Starr’s solo career arriving when he’s 85 years old. And yet here we are. Long Long Road, released April 24th, 2026, is Ringo’s 22nd studio album—and by almost any measure, it’s among the finest work he’s ever put his name to outside the Beatles. The drummer the world spent decades underestimating has, in the final innings of an extraordinary life, found his truest musical home. 🎸 How It Happened The story of Long Long Road begins with a poetry reading. That’s where T Bone Burnett—one of the most celebrated producers in American music, the man behind the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and HBO’s Nashville—connected with Ringo in a way that would change his late-career trajectory entirely. “I always heard Ringo as a Texas artist,” Burnett has explained. “The way he played felt just like Texas music to me.” So he wrote Ringo a Gene Autry-style song, because that’s where his instincts pointed. The result was Look Up, Ringo’s first country record in more than 50 years, his first since Beaucoups of Blues in 1970. It was an unexpected critical and commercial triumph, earning him his first Top 10 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart and, in the UK, his first solo #1 album, overtaking Taylor Swift at the top of the Official Country Chart. Nobody saw that coming. Not even Ringo. He has been characteristically straightforward about how the follow-up happened: “After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened. I like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I’m calling Long Long Road, because I’ve been on a long long road.” ✨ What It Sounds Like Recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, Long Long Road is a ten-song set rooted in country and Americana but reaching wider—what Ringo’s camp describes as an aural mosaic of his musical legacy and influences. The core band, which T Bone affectionately calls “The Texans” after a 1959 Liverpool band Ringo played with before the Beatles, returns from Look Up: Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren, and Colin Linden. Burnett would send Ringo tracks with some meat on them, and Ringo would send back his drum and singing parts. Then Burnett would complete the deal—a process Ringo describes as “a great way of working.” Molly Tuttle returns, duetting with Starr on three of the ten tracks, including the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss-styled opener “Returning Without Tears.” Billy Strings appears for Everly Brothers-fashioned harmonies on “My Baby Don’t Want Nothing.” Sheryl Crow pops up on the title track, which features Ringo’s meditation-informed spoken-word section: “Don’t be attacked by your thoughts… let them come in, let them go.” St. Vincent cameos on “Choose Love,” a reworking of a 2005 Ringo song now given a mid-60s R&B swing and a psychedelic edge. The Carl Perkins connection is particularly meaningful. “I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record,” Ringo explained. “He found this beautiful track I’d never heard before, ‘I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore’.” The choice is both a personal tribute and a musical statement about where Ringo’s deepest roots actually lie—not in Merseybeat or psychedelia, but in the American roots music that first captivated a young Richard Starkey in Liverpool. 🎵 The Long Road That Got Him Here Richard Starkey was born July 7, 1940, making him 85 years old—the oldest living Beatle. What’s less well known is how deep his country roots go, and how early. In the late 1950s, Ringo was the busiest drummer in Liverpool, largely because he owned his own kit. His heart lay in country music so completely that he actually applied to the American Embassy for factory work in Texas, simply so he could be nearer to the music he loved. The embassy paperwork proved too much of a drag, so he never completed it. It was a Sliding Doors moment—had it gone through, there would have been no Ringo Starr in the Beatles. His solo career has been long and varied across more than five decades—stretching from the orchestrated pop of Sentimental Journey and the country soul of Beaucoups of Blues in 1970, through the glam rock hit “Back Off Boogaloo,” the sentimental classic “It Don’t Come Easy,” and years of well-received if commercially modest pop-rock albums. For a period he stepped back from full album releases, releasing EPs instead. The T Bone Burnett collaboration has rejuvenated everything. 🎶 What the Critics Are Saying The reviews have been strong. Mojo gave it four ...
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