“It Don’t Come Easy” is filled with charging, “Savoy Truffle”-style horns and Ringo’s just-right fills. But considering he came from the band that was the best ever in terms of singles, he understood the value of a well-timed radio smash. Starr’s first two albums didn’t do a whole lot commercially. He plays it straight and delivers an excellent performance of an affecting song, written by Sorrels Pickard. That puts this country-folk weeper in his wheelhouse. Starr has always slipped into the country milieu with ease, and he also inhabits put-upon characters very well. The following ten songs are evidence why underestimating Ringo Starr has always been a fool’s game.Īfter Ringo struggled through an album of standards in his first solo effort, he regained his footing on 1970’s Beaucoups of Blues, which found him taking on country songs written ad hoc and performed by Nashville pros. Because Ringo never took himself too seriously (and what a refreshing notion that is for a star of his caliber), many fans underestimate his ability as a record-maker.
#SONGS WRITTEN BY RINGO STARR FULL#
Starr always surrounded himself with excellent players and writers (including his mates in the Fab Four), so the majority of his 1970s albums are excellently-played and full of clever material, well-tailored to Starr’s congenial persona. People might not realize it now, but there was a time when Ringo Starr was as formidable a solo artist as any of his Beatle buddies.
0 kommentar(er)
