Review of Ringo Starr’s album ‘Long Long Road’
ange, just fine. The album opener, “Returning Without Tears,” sets the tone, with pedal steel and strings pushing an undercurrent of sentimentality that runs throughout the LP, best illustrated on the trotting “It’s Been Too Long.”
Starr and Burnett get more traditional on “I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore,” first recorded in 1949 and later made a No. 1 country hit by Charlie Rich in 1974. But Starr draws inspiration from Carl Perkins’ 1959 version of the song. It’s a nice callback to his early love of country music and a full-circle moment for the 85-year-old Starr, comfortably in his element on Long Long Road.