Though the Beatles are best known as titans of the rock and pop worlds, the group has always had some country ties. Starr put out his first country album back in 1970, called Beaucoups of Blues, and he's continued to embrace the genre and its artists in the decades since.

On the heels of his new country album Look Up, the former Beatles drummer will play the Nashville institution in February

During one of his two nights performing at the Ryman, Ringo Starr was surprised by Emmylou Harris who invited the former Beatles drummer to make his Grand Ole Opry.