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Ringo Starr on Returning to Country With a New T Bone Burnett-Produced Album: ‘I Was the Country Guy’ in the Beatles — and He Still Is
Ringo Starr talks about his coming country album, 'Look Up,' produced by T Bone Burnett, and the Martin Scorsese-produced 'Beatles '64' documentary.
So there’s some symmetry in him coming back around to do an album that is unabashedly rooted in the sounds of Nashville, although it will surely be noted, in the modern parlance, that “Look Up” fits in nicely within the Americana movement as much as pure country. The singer-drummer actually played drums on a track on one of Burnett’s earliest albums as a recording artist, a 1977 release by his then-group the Alpha Band … which comes as a surprise to Starr now. King and Gregg Allman and Leon Russell and Elton John… Occasionally you catch a glimpse of what somebody can mean now who had an illustrious past, and something that doesn’t have to do with the charts and all that stuff, but just has to do with the timelessness of who they are.
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