Ringo Starr has lengthy liked nation music as evidenced on his most up-to-date album, Look Up, launched in January.
The Beatles drummer introduced that like to life with two concert events taped at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Jan. 14-15 that CBS and Paramount+ will air tonight (March 10) as Ringo & Associates on the Ryman.
On this unique clip, Starr, with a bit assist from buddies like Jack White, performs the Carl Perkins rockabilly traditional “Matchbox,” which the Beatles coated on their 1964 EP, “Lengthy Tall Sally.”
Different “buddies” within the particular embody Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Guyton, Jamey Johnson, Rodney Crowell, the Warfare and Treaty, and Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, each of whom seem on the album with Starr. The artists be part of the drummer for choices from the brand new album, Starr’s solo hits and Beatles classics.
“I did love nation music earlier than I used to be in [the Beatles],” Starr informed Billboard earlier this 12 months. “We acquired loads of it in Liverpool, as a result of the lads who had been within the service provider navy would carry not solely rock and roll over, however nation — and when nation bands went on tour in England, they all the time performed Liverpool.”
Along with the performances, luminaries together with Dolly Parton and fellow Beatle Paul McCartney share tales on Starr’s impression on their music.
Gunpowder & Sky’s Van Toffler produced the particular with Starr and T Bone Burnett, who additionally produced Look Up.
“Producing Ringo & Associates on the Ryman with T Bone has been one other wild journey — a few of music’s best enjoying the hell out of Ringo’s songs, together with just a few Beatles classics,” Toffler tells Billboard. “We handpicked a lineup of artists who not solely have deep respect for Ringo’s legacy however might additionally carry their very own distinctive spin to those songs, highlighting the good tales and messages behind them. Watching them reinterpret his music — whether or not by full-throttle rock power or a stripped-down, soulful take — was a testomony to only how timeless his songs are. And having Dolly, Lainey Wilson, and his fellow Beatle, Paul, speak about his love of nation artists introduced all of it full circle, making the night time much more significant.”
Working with Burnett enhanced the manufacturing, Toffler says. “T Bone is among the greats: His encyclopedic data of music and deep roots in so many legendary initiatives helped form this into one thing actually particular.”
Different Gunpower & Sky productions embody its documentary on Crow, Sheryl (Showtime); the historical past of soppy rock Generally When We Contact (Paramount+) and Lil Peep: All people’s Every part. Its Phrases + Music audio collection options Beck, Eddie Vedder, Smokey Robinson and others, whereas new audio collection Lighters within the Sky highlights the tales behind the best dwell performances from artists together with Amy Winehouse, Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin.
