Ringo Starr was invited to make his debut on the Grand Ole Opry final night time throughout the first of his two-night sold-out headlining reveals on the famed Ryman Auditorium in assist of his new nation album, Look Up. The Academy Award winner and two-time Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee was stunned onstage with the invitation by his buddy and Opry member Emmylou Harris.
Starr will make his Opry debut on February 21 on the Grand Ole Opry Home as a part of the Opry’s ongoing one hundredth Anniversary celebration.
Harris stunned Starr onstage to welcome him to Nashville and requested if he would come again once more subsequent month to play the Grand Ole Opry for the primary time. When Harris requested, Starr pretended to consider it and, along with his trademark wit, teasingly replied, “When is that, July?” Harris answered, “February,” to which he enthusiastically replied, “I’d like to. It’s an honor and a pleasure. Thanks.”
“What an honor that after all of the extraordinary music he has made and all of the unimaginable historical past he’s been part of, Ringo Starr will probably be making his Opry debut throughout this, the Opry’s milestone one hundredth 12 months,” stated Opry Govt Producer Dan Rogers. “It’s going to be an evening like no different.”
Starr will probably be again on the Ryman Auditorium tonight (Jan. 15) performing songs from his new album.
Starr’s lifelong love of nation music has been obvious and celebrated all through his illustrious profession. He carried out and wrote quite a few nation and country-tinged songs all through his years with The Beatles (i.e. “Act Naturally,” “What Goes On,” “Don’t Move Me By”) in addition to with the sooner Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, and recorded a rustic album, Beaucoups of Blues, in 1970 as his second solo album. His love of Nation and the Blues led him to try to to migrate from London to Texas whereas nonetheless a teen, after studying that Lightnin’ Hopkins lived in Houston.
The artist’s new album comes after an opportunity assembly with T Bone Burnett at an occasion in Los Angeles in 2022 (the 2 had first met within the Nineteen Seventies), the place Starr requested Burnett to put in writing a tune for an EP he was recording. Taking the duty to coronary heart, Burnett returned with 9 songs, all in a rustic vein, which fortunately put Starr on a path to report Look Up.
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