"Country comes naturally to Ringo Starr. It's been a low-key part of his career since his Beatle beginnings, so it was not a serious swerve for him to make a whole country album, the forthcoming Look Up, a collaboration with T Bone Burnett."
"I've done 20 albums and there's always a track that's country-ish on each one. My love of the music - Hank Williams and Kitty Wells are favorites - began in childhood, alongside my acquisition of affection for blues, swing and whatever else came to my hometown."
"Liverpool, it's the capital of country music in England, Starr said, because a lot of it stems from it being a port, and why we got rock n' roll music physically, was because the lads on the boats would be going to America."
"Starr had a star turn with the Beatles in 1965 when he sang the Buck Owens' honky-tonk classic, Act Naturally. Many of the Beatle originals the drummer sang, including What Goes On and Don't Pass Me By, had country undertones."
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