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Track Listing
1. Eye to Eye
2. Missouri Loves Company
3. Instant Amnesia - (featuring David Gilmour)
4. Memphis in Your Mind
5. Never Without You - (featuring Eric Clapton)
6. Imagine Me There - (featuring Charlie Haden)
7. I Think, Therefore I Rock 'N' Roll - (featuring David Gilmore)
8. Trippin on My Own Tears - (featuring Shawn Colvin)
9. Write One For Me - (featuring Willie Nelson)
10. What Love Wants to Be
11. Love First, Ask Questions Later
12. Elizabeth Reigns - (featuring Van Dyke Parks)
13. English Garden
Album Notes
Initial copies include a limited edition bonus DVD featuring interviews and performance footage.
Personnel includes: Ringo Starr (vocals, acoustic, electric & slide guitars, drums, percussion); Shawn Colvin, Willie Nelson (vocals); Gary Burr (acoustic guitar, bass, background vocals); Mark Hudson (electric guitar, Wurlitzer organ, mellotron, keyboards, bass, background vocals); Steve Dudas, Paul Santo (electric guitar, guitar); David Gilmour, Eric Clapton (guitar); Herb Pederson (banjo); Grant Geissmann (dobro); Micky Raphael (bass harmonica); Van Dyke Park (accordion); Dan Higgins (clarinet, saxophone); Gary S. Grant (trumpet); Jim Cox (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Charlie Haden, The Roundheads; Sarah Hudson, Nicole Renee Harris, Christina Rumbley, Mark O'Shea, John O'Shea (background vocals).
Recorded at Whatinthewhatthe? Studio and Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California; Rocca Bella Studio, England.
Then there were two. With George Harrison's passing in November 2001, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney were the only surviving members of the Beatles. Thankfully, Starr chose to press on in a creative manner rather than exiling himself in grief. The result is RINGO RAMA, the second album the Fab Four drummer has worked on with uber-producer Mark Hudson following 1998's VERTICAL MAN. From the outset, Starr weaves the past with the future, making allusions to "It Don't Come Easy" on "Eye to Eye" and bringing in longtime pal Eric Clapton to solo on the poignant Harrison tribute "Never Without You."
Certain Richard Starkey trademarks bubble up throughout, including his famous sense of humor (the double entendre-laden travelogue "Missouri Loves Company") and his love of country music (a twangy "Write One For Me" featuring Willie Nelson). Ringo's rock royalty status ensures plenty of celebrity guests on RINGO RAMA; Pink Floyd's David Gilmour plays guitar on the aforementioned "Missouri" and raucous "I Think Therefore I Rock & Roll," legendary jazz bassist Charlie Haden appears on the heartfelt "Imagine Me There," and Shawn Colvin pops up on the catchy "Trippin' On My Own Tears."
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...The arrangements and production often evoke the multitextured funhouse pop of the post-REVOLVER Beatles...
Rolling Stone (05/01/2003)
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