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Long Long Road

Ringo Starr

Long Long Road

Twenty-second album from the former Beatles drummer and his second country record produced by T Bone Burnett and featuring guest appearances from Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
UMC
UK Release date
24/04/2026
US Release date
24/04/2026
  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The title track ends proceedings on a high, with Sheryl Crow on backing vocals, a smattering of mandolin and a semi-surreal spoken interlude in which Starr sounds ever so zen. It ends, as it surely should, with a single snare shot, delivered like the most emphatic of full stops. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young
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  3. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    It is also, for all the Americana, an incredibly Merseyside record
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  4. 7.5 |   Hot Press

    It’s rooted squarely in country music, with a nod to Americana
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  5. 7.1 |   Spectrum Culture

    Some negligible lyrics from the drummer notwithstanding, Long Long Road is a solid effort from Ringo Starr that will certainly please his longtime fans
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    You'd have to go back to the 1970s to find a Ringo Starr solo album that was as well-crafted with his particular skills in mind as Look Up, and Long Long Road shows Burnett and Starr continue to work together beautifully
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    Embracing simple yet infectious lyricism, impressive guitars and folksy harmonies, Starkey has created another unadulterated Americana album in ‘Long Long Road’, carving his name deeper into the hall of fame
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  8. 7.0 |   Far Out

    It has indeed been a “long, long road,” and the thing worth celebrating is that an 85-year-old man with all the money in the world still enjoys that old-timey Americana music enough to make more of it. This album is a nice window into that joy
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  9. 6.0 |   Exclaim

    Burnett's production gives the affair both refined sheen and rustic charm, and Starr's voice has barely aged since he first sang about being under the sea
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