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)

Paul Plays Queenie Eye

Queenie eye, queenie eye who's got the ball; I haven't got it, it isn't in my pocket... Paul McCartney - Queenie Eye 

Queenie Eye is a catchy little ditty on Paul McCartney's 16th solo studio album New. The song according to the The Beatle's Bible is about a game.

"Now this song, Queenie Eye, is based on a game we used to play when I was kids. You got to remember that's a long time ago and basically in kind of a poor area I was from. What you did you entertain yourself was go out in the street and play street games. There wasn't that much traffic, so you were pretty safe. And one of the games was called Queenie Eye." Paul McCartney