Ringo Starr announces 10‑track album Long Long Road, releases single with Molly Tuttle

Universal Music Canada announced that Ringo Starr will release Long Long Road, a 10‑track country‑leaning album produced with T Bone Burnett, on April 24, 2026, and issued the lead single "It's Been Too Long" with an accompanying visualizer on March 3. The single, available now on streaming services and digital outlets, credits guest vocalists Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz and is available for preorder alongside the album in physical and digital formats.

Label materials describe Long Long Road as a follow-up to Starr’s 2025 record Look Up and as a continuation of his work with Burnett. Starr said of the collaboration, "I'm blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records." He added, "After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened," and framed the project in personal terms: "I like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I'm calling Long Long Road, because I've been on a long long road."

The record was tracked in Nashville and Los Angeles and reunites Starr with the core group that worked on Look Up. Burnett affectionately dubbed this ensemble "The Texans" in label notes; members listed include Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren and Colin Linden. Burnett framed the sessions as intergenerational, saying, "Ringo Starr is a recording artist of the highest caliber, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that's happening around Nashville for both of these records."

Long Long Road's guest roster reaches across Americana and pop: in addition to Tuttle and Jarosz on the single, the album's collaborators include Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow and St. Vincent among others. Label credits and accompanying materials list T Bone Burnett as the principal producer and co‑writer on much of the project, and identify Daniel Tashian and Bruce Sugar in co‑writing and producing roles. Published songwriter credits indicate Burnett wrote or co‑wrote six of the ten tracks; Starr is credited with one solo composition, a co‑write with Bruce Sugar on another track, and a collaboration with Mark Hudson and Gary Burr on a separate song.

The ten songs published with the announcement are: "Returning Without Tears," "Baby Don’t Go," "I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore," "It’s Been Too Long," "Why," "You And I (Wave Of Love)," "My Baby Don’t Want Nothing," "Choose Love," "She’s Gone" and the title track "Long Long Road." The roster includes covers tied to rockabilly roots; label notes indicate the set contains two Carl Perkins standards, and one track is identified as a Perkins song, "I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore."

Stylistically the album continues the Americana and country direction Starr explored on Look Up, a project that prompted his Grand Ole Opry appearance in 2025 and was described in promotional materials as a successful return to country-inflected sounds. Long Long Road will be released by UMe in several formats, including CD, standard LP, an "Ultraviolet Dream" color vinyl variant and digital streaming. The lead single's visualizer and the album preorder are available immediately through the label's distribution channels.