Ringo Starr is gearing up to release a new full-length solo album that’s a collection of country tunes. Although details about the project haven’t been officially announced, the record reportedly will titled Look Up and will be released in January 2025.
The album is a collaboration with acclaimed producer/songwriter/musician T Bone Burnett, who in a new interview with Minnesota newspaper the Star Tribune revealed that he wrote nine tunes for the record.
That Starr would record a country album shouldn’t be a surprise. The famed Beatles drummer has been a fan of country music since he was a child, and several songs he sang with the Fab Four were either straight-up country or influenced by the genre. In addition, Starr’s second solo album, Beaucoups of Blues, was an original country album that he recorded with Nashville session musicians in …