Ringo Starr has released Long Long Road, his second consecutive album for the UMe label produced by T Bone Burnett, following 2025’s well-received Look Up. The album arrived on April 24, 2026, and is available in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here.

Said Starr in a statement when the album was announced, “I’m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records. 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.”

Falling into the Americana and country categories, as did Look Up, Long Long Road features collaborations with Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Jarosz, Molly Tuttle, and St. Vincent. Recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, according to a press release, “this record sees the return of many of the Look Up musicians including the core band (that T Bone affectionately dubs The Texans after the 1959 band Ringo played with in Liverpool) featuring Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren and Colin Linden.”

Said Burnett, “I’ve loved Ringo’s playing and his singing for my whole life…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 first single from the new project was “It’s Been Too Long,” which features vocals from Jarosz and Tuttle.

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Among the 10 tracks on Long Long Road is “I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore,” a somewhat obscure song recorded by the late Carl Perkins. Says Starr in the original March 3 announcement, “I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with the Beatles [“Matchbox” and “Honey Don’t”], and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record, and he found this beautiful track I’d never heard before.”

The album is co-produced by Daniel Tashian and Bruce Sugar. Of the 10 songs, six are written or co-written by T Bone Burnett, two co-written by Ringo and Bruce Sugar, one written by Starr, Mark Hudson and Gary Burr and one by Bernie Benjamin and George David Weiss.

“Choose Love” features backup vocals by St. Vincent.

From the press release: “Starr and Burnett’s first collaboration, Look Up, released January 10, 2025, brought overwhelming success and acclaim. It was Ringo’s first country record in 50 years and it earned him his first Top 10 on Billboard’s all genre Top Album Sales chart. In the U.K. the album reached a significant career milestone, garnering him his first solo #1 album on the Official Country Chart. In February 2025 Starr made his Grand Ole Opry debut after being invited by Emmylou Harris during the first of his two-night run at the legendary Ryman, which was recorded for a 2-hour special still streaming on CBS/Paramount+.”

Long Long Road Vinyl LP Track Listing

SIDE ONE
Returning Without Tears
Baby Don’t Go
I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore
It’s Been Too Long
Why

SIDE TWO
You And I (Wave Of Love)
My Baby Don’t Want Nothing
Choose Love
She’s Gone
Long Long Road

The title track, with Crow and Tashian lending their voices, is accompanied by a video directed by director Francesca Gregorini (also Ringo’s stepdaughter). The clip is sentimental and embraces new technologies, and follows Starr on his Long Long Road, driving through scenes from throughout his life, including many personal and never before seen images. 

Starr, who turns 86 on July 7, will support the release of Long Long Road with a 2026 tour featuring his All-Starr Band: Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette and Buck Johnson.

Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band 2026 Tour Dates (Tickets are available here and here)

May 28 – Pechanga Resort Casino – Temecula, CA
May 29 – Humphreys Concerts by the Bay – San Diego, CA
May 31 – Findlay Toyota Center – Prescott AZ
Jun 01 – Eccles Theater – Salt Lake City, UT
Jun 03 – Linda Ronstadt Music Hall – Tuscon, AZ
Jun 05 – Thunder Valley Casino – Lincoln, CA
Jun 06 – Vina Robles Ampitheatre – Paso Robles, CA
Jun 08 – Kiva Auditorium – Albuquerque, NM
Jun 09 – Bellco Theatre – Denver, CO
Jun 11 – San Jose Civic – San Jose, CA
Jun 12 – Gammage Auditorium – Phoenix, AZ
Jun 14 – The Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA

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Starr’s eventful and remarkable life is the subject of a new biography. Ringo: A Fab Life, from author Tom Doyle, employs an episodic, mosaic format that takes readers from Starr’s brushes with death as a child brought up in poverty, through to dizzying heights of fame and success with the Beatles and beyond. The title will be published on May 12, 2026, via ECW Press. It’s available to order in the U.S. here and in Canada here. It was published in October 2025 in the U.K., where it’s available here.