Ringo Starr announces new studio album featuring Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings and St Vincent - listen to the first single
4 March 2026, 12:10
Ringo Starr shows no signs of slowing down.
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Ringo Starr has announced his 22nd solo studio album, the special guest packed Long Long Road.
Following last year's massive Look Up, the record is Ringo's second collaboration with producer T Bone Burnett and is trailed by the single 'It's Been Too Long', which features Sarah Jarosz and Molly Tuttle.
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Other guests on the album include Sheryl Crow, St Vincent and Billy Strings, who are backed by the T Bone-assembled band of Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren and Colin Linden.
"I'm blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records," Ringo said.
"After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened.
"I like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I'm calling Long Long Road, because I've been on a long long road."
Ringo Starr - It’s Been Too Long (Visualizer)
Long Long Road is released on April 24, 2026, while 'It's Been Too Long' is available to stream now.
The album pushes on from the pure country of Look Up to a broader country-inspired sound.
"I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record," Ringo said.
"He found this beautiful track I’d never heard before, 'I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore'.
T Bone wrote or co-wrote six of the album's ten songs, while two were co-written by Ringo and Bruce Sugar and one by Ringo Starr, Mark Hudson and Gary Burr.
Burnett said: "I've loved Ringo’s playing and his singing for my whole life. And then one night we were at a poetry reading together and he said, why don't you write a song for me?
"So I wrote him a Gene Autry type song because I always heard Ringo as a Texas artist, the way he played felt just like Texas music to me.
"Ringo Starr is a recording artist of the highest caliber, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that’s happening around Nashville for both of these records."
The full tracklistiong of Long Long Road is as follows:
- Returning Without Tears
- Baby Don't Go
- I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore
- It's Been Too Long
- Why
- You And I (Wave Of Love)
- My Baby Don’t Want Nothing
- Choose Love
- She's Gone
- Long Long Road
