Everyone is going country these days. It’s a whole thing. Country music is doing better than any other genre on the American charts, and pop stars are falling all over each other to make country records. I guess you could call Ringo Starr a pop star; he has two #1 hits on the Hot 100, after all. (We’re talking about solo-artist Ringo Starr. That’s how much American missed the Beatles in the ’70s: All four of them had multiple #1 hits as solo artists.) So the news that 84-year-old Ringo had got with T Bone Burnett to make a country record called Look Up wasn’t exactly shocking. But this is nothing new for Ringo Starr. He’s been a country guy for a long time.
