Ringo Starr returns to country music with his new album “Look Up” produced and written by T Bone Burnett. The album includes 11 original songs. “Look Up” was recorded earlier this year in Nashville and Los Angeles. It was born out of the former Beatles member’s chance meeting with Burnett at an event in Los Angeles in 2022, where Ringo Starr asked Burnett to write him a song for an album he was recording at the time.

Burnett returned with nine country songs laying the foundation for the album.

For his first country album since 1970’s Beaucoups of Blues, Starr also enlisted Daniel Tasian and regular collaborator Bruce Sugar as co-producers. Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle contribute to “Look Up,” which also features Alison Krauss, Lucious and Larkin Poe.

“I’ve always loved country music. And when I asked T Bone to write me a song, I didn’t even think it was going to be a country song – but of course it was and it was so beautiful.” Ringo Starr said in a statement.

“Well, I was the country guy” to the Beatles, the drummer acknowledged while discussing the new album in an interview with Variety.

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