Today Ringo Starr’s 4th EP, Rewind Forward, is released worldwide on digital, CD, and 10” vinyl and available for streaming everywhere.
The EP features 4 new songs:
1. Shadows On The Wall
2. Feeling The Sunlight
3. Rewind Forward
4. Miss Jean
Rewind Forward was written with his engineer, and oft co-writer, Bruce Sugar. “We’ve been writing a song now for every EP,” said Ringo. “Rewind Forward was just one of those things I say, and it made sense in the moment. Like a Hard Days Night – I thought, why don’t we just Rewind Forward? To make sense of it, sometimes it is good to go back and move forward from a place you left off, you don’t ever have to live in the past, but it is good to check it occasionally.”
The other tracks find Starr collaborating with old and new friends – including longtime All Starr Steve Lukather and his Toto bandmate Joe Williams who wrote the opening track “Shadows on the Wall;” “I asked Luke for a song – him and Joe Williams – and they put meat on it – so I wasn’t just getting a basic track I have to add everything to – it has guitar and bass and all I have to do is add my vocals and drums. Of course, I always do the drums and sing – it is my EP!”
Paul McCartney wrote “Feeling the Sunlight” “We were Facetiming as we sometimes do, and I asked him if he had a song or would write one for this EP I am making. A week later he sent the track over and he’s all over it – which is great – playing EVERYthing, “Ringo continues with a laugh, “including the drums!!!!! So, we had to take them off – I did the drums and the vocals.”
For the fourth and final track, “Miss Jean,” Ringo collaborated with Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers. “We had played together on an Ian Hunter track (which was number 1 on the Heritage chart – whatever that chart is!) and I’d played on a Tom Petty track. But this was the first song Mike has ever written for me, which I loved. I put drums on it and sang it and he put everything else on it – that’s how it works.” That “everything else” also included the work of fellow Heartbreaker and one of Ringo’s dear friends Benmont Tench.
In addition, the EP features contributions from Joe Walsh, Steve Dudas, Lance Morrison, as well as Matt Bissonnette, Torrance Klein, Weston Wilson, Kip Lennon, Marky Lennon (full credit listing below).
All songs were recorded at Ringo’s home studio in Los Angeles (except for “Feeling the Sunlight” where Paul recorded all his parts in the UK).
Today also marks the wrap up of Ringo and his All Starr Band’s Fall tour which began September 15 at Lake Tahoe Arena, with a special stop in Nashville where Ringo was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame. For all tour dates see www.ringostarr.com. Touring steadily since 1989, this current iteration continued the tradition of playing hits and delighting fans, as well as garnering praise from the press:
