(CD) Ringo Starr - Look Up

January 10th, 2025 

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Ringo Starr will release a brand-new country music album, Look Up, produced and co-written by T Bone Burnett. This stunning collection features 11 original songs, recorded through out 2024 in Nashville and Los Angeles. 

Nine of the 11 songs on Look Up were written or co-written by Burnett, one by Billy Swan and the other co-written by Starr and Bruce Sugar. Starr sang and played drums on all the songs and co-wrote the album’s closer, “Thankful,” featuring Alison Krauss. Burnett enlisted some of Nashville’s finest and hottest talent for the record, including Billy Strings, Larkin Poe, Lucius, Molly Tuttle and the aforementioned Krauss. The album’s debut track, “Time On My Hands,” written by Paul Kennerly, Daniel Tashian (who is a co-producer on the album along with Sugar) and Burnett, is out today.

Starr’s lifelong love of country music has been apparent and celebrated throughout his illustrious career.  He performed and wrote numerous country and country-tinged songs throughout his years with The Beatles (i.e. “Act Naturally,” “What Goes On,” “Don’t Pass Me By”) as well as with the earlier Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, and recorded a country album, Beaucoups of Blues, in 1970 as his second solo album.  His love of Country and the Blues led him to try and emigrate from London to Texas while still a teen, after reading that Lightnin’ Hopkins lived in Houston.  

The artist’s new album comes after a chance meeting with Burnett at an event in Los Angeles in 2022 (the two had first met in the 1970s), where Starr asked Burnett to write a song for an EP he was recording.  Taking the task to heart, Burnett returned with nine songs, all in a country vain, which happily put Starr on a path to record Look Up: his first country album in more than 50 years and his first full-length album since 2019.

TRACKLIST: 

1. Breathless (featuring Billy Strings) (T Bone Burnett)
2. Look Up (featuring Molly Tuttle) (Daniel Tashian, T Bone Burnett)
3. Time On My Hands (Paul Kennerly, Daniel Tashian, T Bone Burnett)
4. Never Let Me Go (featuring Billy Strings) (T Bone Burnett)
5. I Live For Your Love (featuring Molly Tuttle) (Billy Swan, T Bone Burnett)
6. Come Back (featuring Lucius) (T Bone Burnett)
7. Can You Hear Me Call (featuring Molly Tuttle) (T Bone Burnett)
8. Rosetta (featuring Billy Strings and Larkin Poe) (T Bone Burnett)
9. You Want Some (Billy Swan)
10. String Theory (featuring Molly Tuttle) (Daniel Tashian, T Bone Burnett)
11. Thankful (featuring Alison Krauss) (Richard Starkey, Bruce Sugar)*