Ringo Starr reveals new album “Long Long Road” to be released in April

On April 24, Ringo Starr will release a new album, as per UCR. After the success of “Look Up”, the former Beatle‘s first country album in over 50 years, in 2025, “Long Long Road” is his second project with producer T Bone Burnett. Listen to “It’s Been Too Long,” the album’s debut song, below. Like its predecessor, the 10-track “Long Long Road” is a country record including songs by a number of well-known musicians. Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz join Starr on “It’s Been Too Long,” along with Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow, and St. Vincent.

I’m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records, 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.

Many of the backup musicians from “Look Up” also performed on “Long Long Road”, which was recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles. In reference to Starr’s late 1950s Liverpool band, which included Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren, and Colin Linden, Burnett called the group the Texans.

I’ve loved Ringo’s playing and his singing for my whole life, 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. – Burnett

Tracklist:

SIDE ONE
1. RETURNING WITHOUT TEARS
2. BABY DON’T GO
3. I DON’T SEE ME IN YOUR EYES ANYMORE
4. IT’S BEEN TOO LONG
5. WHY
SIDE TWO
1. YOU AND I (WAVE OF LOVE)
2. MY BABY DON’T WANT NOTHING
3. CHOOSE LOVE
4. SHE’S GONE
5. LONG LONG ROAD