{"id":35615,"date":"2026-03-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=35615"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:35:34","slug":"ringo-starr-announces-new-country-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/ringo-starr-announces-new-country-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr Announces New Country Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>\u00a0just announced that he will release\u00a0his new country album,\u00a0<em>Long Long Road<\/em>, on April 24th via Universal Music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This record continues the 85-year-old music legend\u2019s ongoing collaboration with producer\u00a0<strong>T Bone Burnett\u00a0<\/strong>following 2025\u2019s\u00a0<em>Look Up<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Beatles<\/strong>\u00a0drummer also unveiled the project\u2019s first single,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s Been Too Long,\u201d\u00a0featuring a collaboration with\u00a0<strong>Molly Tuttle\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Sarah Jarosz<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ringo Starr - It\u2019s Been Too Long (Visualizer)\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXR078sbCDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10-track album was recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles with musicians Burnett calls\u00a0<strong>The Texans<\/strong>, named after a 1959 Liverpool band Starr played with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional special guests on the album include\u00a0<strong>Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow,\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0St. Vincent<\/strong>. Starr\u2019s spring tour with\u00a0<strong>His All Starr Band<\/strong>\u00a0begins May 28th in Temecula, California. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVbQSXJCRgh\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr\u00a0just announced that he will release\u00a0his new country album,\u00a0Long Long Road, on April 24th via Universal Music. This record continues the 85-year-old music legend\u2019s ongoing collaboration with producer\u00a0T Bone Burnett\u00a0following 2025\u2019s\u00a0Look Up.\u00a0 The Beatles\u00a0drummer also unveiled the project\u2019s first single,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s Been Too Long,\u201d\u00a0featuring a collaboration with\u00a0Molly Tuttle\u00a0and\u00a0Sarah Jarosz. \u201cI\u2019m blessed to have T Bone","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[8835,10544,723,3944,10505,10545],"class_list":["post-35615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billy-strings","tag-long-long-road","tag-ringo-starr","tag-sheryl-crow","tag-t-bone-burnett","tag-universal-music"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 16:44:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/ringo-starr-announces-new-country-album\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35621,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions\/35621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}