Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\nIt comes after he released the album’s first single, It\u2019s Been Too Long, featuring Sarah Jarosz and Molly Tuttle, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The upcoming record, which is due to hit shelves on 24 April, was co-written by Starr and American producer T Bone Burnett.<\/p>\n
It follows on from his 2025 album Look Up which marked his first number one album on the UK\u2019s official country chart.<\/p>\n
He said: “I\u2019m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records.<\/p>\n
“After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened.<\/p>\n
“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\u2019m calling Long Long Road, because I\u2019ve been on a long long road.”<\/p>\n
Recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, the album has a country and Americana sound and features much of the same bandmembers from Look Up.<\/p>\n
Starr added that the album includes musical influences from guitarist Carl Perkins and said: “I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record and he found this beautiful track I\u2019d never heard before, I Don\u2019t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore.”<\/p>\n
T Bone said the pair decided to write a song together after attending a poetry reading together, praising the musician for being of the “highest calibre.”<\/p>\n
He said: “I\u2019ve loved Ringo\u2019s playing and his singing for my whole life.<\/p>\n
“I wrote him a Gene Autry type song because I always heard Ringo as a Texas artist, the way he played felt just like Texas music to me.<\/p>\n
“Ringo Starr is a recording artist of the highest calibre, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that\u2019s happening around Nashville for both of these records.”<\/p>\n
Starr -real name Richard Starkey – rose to fame as part of The Beatles, who formed in 1960 and were made up of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison.<\/p>\n
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