Ringo Starr told Fox News Digital a chance encounter with country music legend T Bone Burnett inspired him to do a full country album. Ringo Starr has gone country after all these years. At Ringo's Annual Peace & Love Birthday Celebration at Beverly Hills Garden Park, the Beatles legend revealed what inspired the genre shift.
Starr credits T Bone Burnett, the Grammy-winning country icon, telling Fox News Digital, "I met him [when] Olivia Harrison was reading poems for George. There was about 100 of us there listening, and he was one of them, and I bumped into him [off and on] since the '70s. "He said, ‘What are you doing? I said, ‘Oh, well I’m doing this, EPs [extended play albums, which have more tracks than a single, but less than a record].
I’m getting people to write a song, put some music on it." Ringo Starr decided to produce a country album after a chance meeting with a fellow music icon. (Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images) RINGO STARR ON THE BEATLES' RAPID RISE TO FAME: 'WE ALL WENT MAD AT DIFFERENT TIMES' Starr had some pop songs written but said Burnett's song was "absolutely one of the most beautiful country songs I ever heard.
So, I thought, ‘I’m going to do a country EP.’" But when he spoke to Burnett about doing more tracks, he revealed he actually had nine songs, so Ringo said, "I thought let’s make a real CD, so I’m back making a CD." In an interview earlier this year with Variety, Burnett had similar praise for Starr.
"He’s such a beautiful sing.
