Ringo Starr on Working With Linda Perry for His Rocking New EP, Enlisting T Bone Burnett for a Country Follow-Up, and How He Feels About ‘Let It Be’

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Ringo’s rotogravure is back, as it were, with a new EP, “Crooked Boy,” that will delight fans who’ve wanted a real rock record that was as steady as his backbeat.

Linda Perry wrote and produced all four songs for this, the latest in a series of EPs that Ringo Starr began recording during the pandemic and is keeping on with well into the 2020s.

He’s not married to the short-form format, though. As he tells Variety in this Q&A, a country project that he started working on with producer T Bone Burnett has blossomed into a full-blown LP, due to come out this fall, as Ringo’s (snare) hits just keep on coming.

Starr got onto a Zoom with Variety to discuss letting Perry take over completely — but with some notes sent back — for “Crooked Boy”; his sentimental attachment to the medallion seen in the 1964 cover photo; how the next project, with Burnett, got expanded into a full-length album; and his thoughts about the original “Let It Be” documentary coming out. I love the new EP, so I’m happy we get to talk to you about it. I love it too.