LOS ANGELES (AP) 69制片厂制作传媒 Country comes naturally to Ringo Starr.
It69制片厂制作传媒檚 been a low-key part of his of his career since his Beatle beginnings, so it was not a serious swerve for him to make a whole country album, the forthcoming 69制片厂制作传媒淟ook Up,69制片厂制作传媒 a collaboration with the modern maestro of classic country and Americana, T Bone Burnett.
69制片厂制作传媒淚69制片厂制作传媒檝e done 20 albums and there69制片厂制作传媒檚 always a track that69制片厂制作传媒檚 country-ish on each one,69制片厂制作传媒 the 84-year-old Starr told The Associated Press recently.
His love of the music 69制片厂制作传媒 Hank Williams and Kitty Wells are favorites 69制片厂制作传媒 began in childhood, alongside his acquisition of affection for blues, swing and whatever else came to his hometown.
69制片厂制作传媒淟iverpool, it69制片厂制作传媒檚 the capital of country music in England,69制片厂制作传媒 Starr said, 69制片厂制作传媒渂ecause a lot of I think it stems from it being a port, and why we got rock 69制片厂制作传媒榥69制片厂制作传媒 roll music physically, was because the lads on the boats would be going to America, they69制片厂制作传媒檇 be going to Egypt, would be going all over. But they were bringing music in.69制片厂制作传媒
Starr 69制片厂制作传媒 even his stage name has cowboy vibes 69制片厂制作传媒 had a star turn with the Beatles in 1965 when he sang the Buck Owens69制片厂制作传媒 honky-tonk classic, 69制片厂制作传媒淎ct Naturally.69制片厂制作传媒 Many of the Beatle originals the drummer sang, including 69制片厂制作传媒淲hat Goes On69制片厂制作传媒 and 69制片厂制作传媒淒on69制片厂制作传媒檛 Pass Me By,69制片厂制作传媒 had country undertones.
It would culminate with his second solo album, 197169制片厂制作传媒檚 69制片厂制作传媒淏eaucoups of Blues,69制片厂制作传媒 going full country.
He kept dabbling 69制片厂制作传媒 he recorded an 69制片厂制作传媒淎ct Naturally69制片厂制作传媒 duet with Owens in 1989 69制片厂制作传媒 but he didn69制片厂制作传媒檛 make a full country album again for decades.
Enter Burnett, the culture69制片厂制作传媒檚 chief curator of classic country for the last 25 years, the man behind the soundtracks to 69制片厂制作传媒淥 Brother Where Art Thou69制片厂制作传媒 and 69制片厂制作传媒淚nside Llewyn Davis,69制片厂制作传媒 and the unlikely pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Starr had known Burnett for decades, but had never collaborated on an entire project with him.
69制片厂制作传媒淚n the 69制片厂制作传媒70s I used to throw a lot of parties and, and he was always there and I never invited him once,69制片厂制作传媒 Starr said. 69制片厂制作传媒淲e often laugh about that.69制片厂制作传媒
The two were both at the Sunset Marquis last year for a poetry reading from Olivia Harrison, widow of Starr69制片厂制作传媒檚 former bandmate George Harrison.
Starr had been doing a series of EPs with different writers and producers, including a recent release with Linda Perry, and suggested Burnett give him a song for the next one.
Burnett quickly came back with a country tune.
69制片厂制作传媒淚t was beautiful. The most beautiful song I69制片厂制作传媒檝e heard in a long time,69制片厂制作传媒 Starr said. He began to think, 69制片厂制作传媒淚69制片厂制作传媒檓 going to do a country piece.69制片厂制作传媒
An inspired Burnett would write nine songs that along with two more, one of them written by Starr with his friend Bruce Sugar, turning the EP into an LP.
Starr played the drums and sang in Los Angeles, while Burnett recorded parts of the record in Nashville, bringing on young neo-classical country artists Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle for several tracks apiece.
And Krauss sings with Starr on the song he co-wrote, 69制片厂制作传媒淭hankful,69制片厂制作传媒 released Friday as the album69制片厂制作传媒檚 second single, in which he managed to smuggle his catchphrase, 69制片厂制作传媒減eace and love,69制片厂制作传媒 into a genre that69制片厂制作传媒檚 usually about anything but.
69制片厂制作传媒淵eah, I put it in the song,69制片厂制作传媒 he said with a smile.
69制片厂制作传媒淟ook Up,69制片厂制作传媒 to be released in January, comes at a major country moment across music, with everyone from Beyonc茅 to Post Malone pulling on cowboy boots and breaking out out the twang.
69制片厂制作传媒淢ine just came together. I mean, I didn69制片厂制作传媒檛 think of any of that,69制片厂制作传媒 Starr said. 69制片厂制作传媒淚 just thought, I69制片厂制作传媒檓 going to do it.69制片厂制作传媒
Beyonc茅 did come up at one point in Burnett and Starr69制片厂制作传媒檚 work.
69制片厂制作传媒淗e asked, 69制片厂制作传媒榳hat are you going to call the album?69制片厂制作传媒69制片厂制作传媒 Starr said. 69制片厂制作传媒淚 thought, 69制片厂制作传媒楤E-ON-SAY.69制片厂制作传媒 But nobody laughed.69制片厂制作传媒
In January, he69制片厂制作传媒檒l get to play one of his favorite places, Nashville69制片厂制作传媒檚 Ryman auditorium, former longtime home of the Grand Ole Opry, for a pair of concerts and a TV special.
69制片厂制作传媒淚69制片厂制作传媒檓 excited because we69制片厂制作传媒檙e going to be doing like some of the other songs and some of the country songs,69制片厂制作传媒 he said. 69制片厂制作传媒淲e69制片厂制作传媒檒l be doing 69制片厂制作传媒榃ith a Little Help From My Friends69制片厂制作传媒 in a country fashion, country style. So let69制片厂制作传媒檚 see.69制片厂制作传媒
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