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Ringo Starr<\/p>\n
(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
Is there a fill on this album, T Bone, that lit you up when Ringo played it?<\/b>
Burnett:<\/b> My favorite part of the drumming on the record is the choruses of \u201cBaby Don\u2019t Go,\u201d where Ringo played something I never heard him play before. He was just relating to the song, and it turned into this kind of second line feel.<\/p>\n
A New Orleans vibe.<\/b>
Starr:<\/b> Played it with brushes. I just sit behind the drums and play, and whatever comes, comes. If we do Take 2, I may not do it the same way \u2014 I may be in a totally different place because it\u2019s an emotion, and the emotion came earlier. I can\u2019t explain the way I play. I play because I love to play, and things happen as I\u2019m going along.<\/p>\n
Did your love of country music make you an oddball as a schoolkid growing up in England?<\/b>
Starr:<\/b> School I didn\u2019t do a lot of, so I don\u2019t know. But Liverpool was into it \u2014 the neighbors and my pals. I\u2019m grateful I was born there because it was a port, and in this area I lived, at least one of the sons of every family was in the Merchant Navy, and they\u2019d bring back records from America. I worked on the day boats trying to get my ticket for the Merchant Navy, but they fired me.<\/p>\n
Burnett:<\/b> Fortunately for the world.<\/p>\n
As a young musician in Texas, T Bone, did you hear Ringo\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Pass Me By,\u201d from the White Album, as a country song?<\/b>
Burnett:<\/b> Definitely, yeah \u2014 it had a fiddle on it. It sounded like an orchestra fiddle player trying to play country music.<\/p>\n
Starr:<\/b> It was English country music.<\/p>\n
Would the band that made this record ever go on tour?<\/b>
Starr:<\/b> It could go on tour, yeah. It\u2019s another All-Starr Band \u2014 the country All-Starr Band.<\/p>\n
Burnett:<\/b> It would be interesting \u2014 Billy and Molly and Sarah Jarosz and Dennis Crouch. We could do that.<\/p>\n
Starr:<\/b> Not this year, OK? I\u2019ve got enough this year.<\/p>\n
Do you envision this partnership continuing in the studio? Think there\u2019ll be another record?<\/b>
Burnett:<\/b> I don\u2019t want to tempt fate. It\u2019s been such a beautiful collaboration.<\/p>\n
Starr:<\/b> Might happen.<\/p>\n
Burnett:<\/b> I\u2019m open to it.<\/p>\n
Starr:<\/b> Now I know we\u2019ve both thought about it.<\/p>\n
Last one for you, Ringo: I heard Paul\u2019s new album the other day, with the duet between the two of you. That\u2019s something I\u2019d never heard before.<\/b>
Starr: <\/b>Well, nobody has. I went to Andrew Watt\u2019s house maybe two years ago \u2014 we were just jamming, he wasn\u2019t producing me or anything. He got a guitar, and somebody had left some drums there and I played those. Then I said, \u201cOh, four o\u2019clock \u2014 I gotta go.\u201d So I left. Then I started doing a record. I kept calling Andrew: \u201cSend that track up, maybe we can do something with it.\u201d He never sent it.<\/p>\n
Just keeping it safe.<\/b>
Starr:<\/b> He became not my best friend immediately [laughs<\/i>]. But then what happened to it was Paul was working with Andrew, and Andrew played him the thing with him on guitar and me on drums. Paul wrote a song around that, and so he sort of had to ask me to sing on it, didn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n
At the event where I heard the album, it was clear how moved people were to hear the two of you together.<\/b>
Starr:<\/b> Same is true for us. That\u2019s where we come from.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr and T Bone Burnett were sitting around the other day at the Sunset Marquis when the former Beatle suddenly turned a dining table into a drum kit and belted out a bit of \u201cRock Island Line.\u201d \u201cIt was Lonnie Donegan who gave us all a great break,\u201d Starr, 85, said of the late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ringo-Starr-on-his-new-country-album-and-his-old.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396647,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396645\/revisions\/2396647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}