Ringo had known Burnett for many years, but it was a chance between the pair back in November 2022 at a party to launch Olivia Harrison’s book ‘Came the Lightening – Twenty Poems for George’ at the Sunset Marquis hotel in Los Angeles that inspired them to record together.

During a recent interview, Ringo Starr explained why his Beatles bandmates would laugh at him when he’d present original songs to the group.

Look Up is his first for six years and his first to reflect his long-held love of country since way back in 1970, when he cut Beaucoups Of Blues in Nashville. In a new interview with the Sunday Times,

Produced by T. Bone Burnett, the album showcases Ringo's finest work in decades, supported by a stellar lineup

Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings and Alison Krauss are among the guests on Starr's T Bone Burnett-produced country set.

When the Beatles fell apart in 1970, Ringo took refuge in his boyhood country dreams, for the underrated solo album Beaucoups of Blues. He flew out to Nashville to bang out a three-day quickie with pedal-steel master Pete Drake and a crew of Music Row session cats.

Ringo Starr welcomed a treasure trove of artists to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium to help him celebrate his new country album, Look Up.

"We met Johnny Cash on the last gig the Beatles did, in San Francisco," Ringo Starr says today. "That was the last time we did gigs, and Johnny was there to see us off." Starr, 84, remembers it vividly,

Country, rock hall of famers, modern stars joined icon Ringo Starr at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium to celebrate the release of his album 'Look Up.'

Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images Ringo Starr releases a new album ... Much of Look Up is written by T Bone Burnett, who is also interviewed and made some interesting observations ...

On "Look Up," his first full album in nearly six years, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ringo Starr has taken a country turn -- which he did with the band by singing Buck Owens' "Act Naturally" on on his own with his second solo album,

Produced by T Bone Burnett, Look Up features 11 songs with Ringo playing drums and singing on all of them. On some of the songs, he’s joined by other artists like Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Alison Krauss, Larkin Poe, and Lucius.