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January 12th, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Ringo Starr Y Not Track-Listing, Album Cover Art

Here is the Ringo Starr Y Not track-list and album cover art. The highly anticipated new album from the legendary former Beatles member was released Jan. 12, 2010 and features guest appearances and collaborations from fellow former Beatle Paul McCartney (who appears on a duet on the lead single Walk With You), Joe Walsh, Joss Stone, Ben Harper, Richard Marx, Van Dyke Parks, Ann Marie Calhoun (violin) and Tina Sugandh (tabla), among others.

The new album is the first that Starr produced himself. In an interview with Billboard.com, he discussed the album and its numerous collaborators:

“People just came out and supported me ’cause I was doing it…A lot of it was just people hanging out and thinking, ‘Let’s try this.’ “

It is his first album since the 2008 Liverpool 8′. Regarding the song The Other Side of Liverpool on the new album, Starr says:

[It] follows “Liverpool 8’s” title track as part of a plan “to do a…mini-biography on every CD from now on…It’s not like a book where you can writer forever; you sort of encapsulate certain moments of your life.”

Source: Ringo Starr Says ‘Y Not’ For New Album, Tour

Regarding the collaboration with fellow member of the Fab Four, Ringo Starr said via press release, as reported by Rolling Stone:

“Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on ‘Peace Dream.’ So I played him this other track and Paul said, ‘Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of cans.’ And he went to the mike and he just invented that part where he follows on my vocal. That was all Paul McCartney, and there could be nothing better.”

“He makes it bigger and he makes it fuller,” Starr said of McCartney’s work on “Walk With You,” which was co-written by Starr and Parks. “It makes the song like a conversation between us, and that was Paul’s idea to do his part one beat behind me. That’s why he’s a gen-i-us and an incredible bass player.”

Source: Ringo Starr Recruits Paul McCartney for New Album “Y Not”

Here is the Ringo Starr Y Not album cover art. The tracks and a video of the lead single are below.

Y Not song-list

1. “Fill in the Blanks” (Featuring Joe Walsh)
2. “Peace Dream” (Featuring Paul McCartney on bass)
3. “The Other Side of Liverpool”
4. “Walk With You” (duet with Paul McCartney)
5. “Time”
6. “Everyone Wins” –
7. “Mystery of the Night” – 4:05
8. “Can’t Do It Wrong” – 3:45
9. “Y Not” – 3:49
10. “Who’s Your Daddy” (Featuring Joss Stone)

YouTube Link – Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney Walk With Me lyrics.