Ringo Starr will launch a new album early subsequent 12 months. Look Up is a nation file consisting of 11 unique songs, most of them cowritten by the album’s producer, T Bone Burnett.

The former Beatle cowrote one of many new songs along with taking part in drums and singing on the mission. Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Larkin Poe, Lucius and Molly Tuttle seem on the tracks.

“I’ve always loved country music,” Starr notes in a press launch asserting the album. “And when I asked T Bone to write me a song, I didn’t even think at the time that it would be a country song – but of course it was, and it was so beautiful.

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“I had been making EPs on the time and so I believed we’d do a nation EP – however when he introduced me 9 songs I knew we needed to make an album. And I’m so glad we did. I wish to thank and ship peace and like to T Bone and all the nice musicians who helped make this file. It was a pleasure making it and I hope it’s a pleasure to take heed to.”

You can listen to the first song released from Look Up, “Time on My Hands,” below. The album will be released on Jan. 10.

Starr teased the project earlier this year when he mentioned that he was working on the album with Burnett in an interview. In a way, it marks a return to the genre that started Starr’s solo career in 1970, when he released his first LP, the country-leaning Beaucoup of Blues.

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Before that, several of the songs he sang on Beatles albums – including “Act Naturally,” “What Goes On” and “Don’t Pass Me By” – were country in origin.

Why Did Ringo Starr Make a Country Album?

Starr first met Burnett in the ’70s; they recently reconnected at an event in Los Angeles, and Starr asked Burnett to write a song for a new EP he was recording. Burnett handed him enough songs for a new album, his first since 2019.

“I’ve cherished Ringo Starr and his taking part in and his singing and his aesthetic for so long as I can bear in mind,” Burnett says. “He modified the way in which each drummer after him performed, together with his creative method to the instrument. And he has all the time sung killer rockabilly, in addition to being a heartbreaking ballad singer.

“To get to make this music with him was something like the realization of a 60-year dream I’ve been living. None of the work that I have done through a long life in music would have happened if not for him and his band. Among other things, this album is a way I can say thank you for all he has given me and us.”

Starr will play two exhibits at Nashville’s well-known Ryman Auditorium to advertise the album on Jan. 14 and 15. Tickets go on sale Oct. 25.

You can see the monitor itemizing for Look Up under.

Ringo Starr, ‘Look Up’ Track Listing
Breathless (that includes Billy Strings)
Look Up (that includes Molly Tuttle)
Time On My Hands
Never Let Me Go (that includes Billy Strings)
I Live For Your Love (that includes Molly Tuttle)
Come Back (that includes Lucius)
Can You Hear Me Call (that includes Molly Tuttle)
Rosetta (that includes Billy Strings and Larkin Poe)
You Want Some
String Theory (that includes Molly Tuttle)
Thankful (that includes Alison Krauss)