Beatles legend Ringo Starr changes tune from rock to ‘beautiful’ country music

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Former Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr is making a music switch from rock to country. The legendary artist shared that he was changing his tune, during a press conference for his new country album, "Look Up." When Fox News Digital asked what the inspiration behind the album was, he explained that T Bone Burnett, a producer and songwriter who has worked with Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss and more, had helped bring the record to life. "T Bone was the inspiration, because I met him at this party we were at . . .

just getting together," Starr remarked.The duo had initially met in the 1970s. The 84-year-old rocker continued to explain how the two had shared which projects they were working on.

Starr was working on creating EPs and suggested to Burnett, if he had songs, to send them his way. "He sent me the song that is the most beautiful country track I've heard in many years.

It's sort of '50s country. And so, I thought, well, I'll just make a country EP. . . . Most of them are . . . pop rock," Starr added. "[T Bone] sent me the song that is the most beautiful country track I've heard in many years." — Ringo Starr The Beatles legend went on to say that when Burnett visited Los Angeles, Starr asked him to produce what was, at the time, an EP.