He may be 85 years old, but Ringo Starr is showing no signs of slowing down.
The former Beatles drummer is still getting by with a little help from his friends. He’s touring once again this spring and summer with his All Starr Band and he has just announced plans to release his second album produced by T Bone Burnett in as many years.
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Long Long Road is due on April 24 and it’s being previewed with the first single “It’s Been Too Long,” featuring Sarah Jarosz and Molly Tuttle, released on March 3. They’re not the only special guests on the 10-track album. Others featured include Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow and St. Vincent.
Long Long Road follows Starr’s 2025 collaboration with Burnett, Look Up, which topped the Country and Americana charts in the U.K.
“I’m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records,” Ringo said in a statement. “After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened. 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’m calling Long Long Road, because I’ve been on a long long road.”
On Long Long Road, Ringo continues to explore his country and Americana roots. “I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record,” Ringo explained, “and he found this beautiful track I’d never heard before, ‘I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore.’”
Recorded in studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, Long Long Road finds Starr backed by many of the same musicians who played on Look Up, including a core of session aces that Burnett calls the Texans, including Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren and Colin Linden.
“I’ve loved Ringo’s playing and his singing for my whole life,” Burnett said in a statement. “And then one night we were at a poetry reading together and he said, why don’t you write a song for me? So 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. Ringo Starr is a recording artist of the highest caliber, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that’s happening around Nashville for both of these records.”
