Things Are Looking Up for Ringo Starr

No matter where you place in the human race, there is mercy, there is grace, look up... 
Ringo Starr - Look Up

I just heard that the original drummer for The Beatles, Pete Best announced his retirement.  I was looking forward to see him play in May but that show has since been canceled.  I wish him all the best.

His Beatles’s replacement and my favorite drummer (along with Keith Moon) Ringo Starr has recently put out his best album in years.  It is a fine one.  Aided by artists such as Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Lucius and Larkin Poe and produced by super-producer T-Bone Burnett, Ringo’s Look Up is a country flavored joy.  Burnett tends to bring out the best in whoever he works with and he has done it here once again.

Here are some of my favorite T-Bone produced works:

        The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River (2013)

        Counting Crows - August and Everything After (1993)

        Peter Case - Peter Case (1986)

        The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse (1996)

        O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Soundtrack) (2000)

        Los Lobos - Will the Wolf Survive (1984)

        Robert Plant and Alison Kraus - Raising Sand (2007)

        BoDeans - Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (1986)