Ringo Starr - Long Long Road
★★★★
UME
Ringo Starr’s debut outing with T Bone Burnett, 2025’s Look Up, was a creative triumph, so the pair haven’t messed much with the formula on this swift follow-up. Returning are Molly Tuttle – duetting with Starr on three of the 10 tracks, including Robert Plant/Alison Krauss-styled opener Returning Without Tears – and Billy Strings for the Everly Brothers-fashioned harmonies of My Baby Don’t Want Nothing.
Sheryl Crow pops up on the title track (which comes with Ringo’s meditation-informed spoken-word section: “Don’t be attacked by your thoughts… let them come in, let them go”) while St. Vincent cameos on Choose Love, a reworking of a previously-released 2005 Ringo song now given mid-’60s R&B swing and a psychedelic edge. Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young.
Long Long Road is out April 24 on UME.
ORDER: Amazon | Rough Trade | HMV
Tracklisting:
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
6. You and I (Wave of Love)
7. My Baby Don’t Want Nothing
8. Choose Love
9. She’s Gone
10. Long Long Road
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