Follow-up to Ringo's 'Look Up' LP in the Works

Producer T-Bone Burnett shared the news that a follow-up to Ringo's well-received Look Up LP is in the works. 

Via Variety:

Starr has been riding high on the acclaim for the “Look Up” album. The good news, Burnett said backstage, is that a followup is already underway.

“We’re already halfway into another record, with a lot of the same people,” said Burnett. “Molly’s played on four songs so far. I mean, she killed that song this morning, ‘Octopus’s Garden’ — which is, you know, a country song. I don’t think people thought of it as a country song at the time, but all of Ringo’s stuff is basically country music. He’s sort of a hillbilly at heart, I think.” 

Will the sequel be in the same vein? “Yeah, I think it will,” Burnett said. “He’s calling it ‘Look Up II.’ But it’s interesting. When we started (on the previous album), neither one of us had any idea what we were doing, but it all came together through that process. And now we have a proof of concept, and so we’re building on that.” He backtracked just a little on the new album continuing exactly on the same track. “This is a little more hardcore rockabilly, this next iteration, because, you know, his early stuff (with the Beatles), like ’Honey Don’t,’ all of that stuff was basically rockabilly music.”

...Burnett has other aspirations for Starr, whether or not he wants to pick them up. “He’s doing about two tours a year still with the All Starr Band. I don’t know if he’ll ever get into it, but I would love to do show with all of these musicians, just focused around Ringo. Because with the All Starr band, there are a lot of different singers, and I don’t know if he’s up for singing 15 songs in a night, but that’s my dream.”

There’s one thing Burnett can say with confidence, anyway. “I don’t think either of us is ready to be put out to pasture yet, you know?”