RINGO AND TOM PETTY PLAY ON BENMONT TENCH SOLO TRACK - "BLONDE GIRL, BLUE DRESS" (AUDIO)

Ringo and Tom Petty contributed to "Blonde Girl, Blue Dress," a track from Benmont Tench's debut album, You Should Be So Lucky. Tench has been the keyboardist for Petty's Heartbreakers for the past 40 years.

"Originally we had Ringo set to play drums on it, but there was some kind of mix-up about dates and we were under the gun, so Jeremy Stacey stayed on the kit".

"The next day Ringo rang up and said, 'Let's cut it!' And we had a perfectly good take, but it was missing a certain something. I asked him to come put some jangle on it, he turned up 20 minutes later with a canvas bag full of tambourines, played it twice and suddenly it all came into focus. He's really something, that Ringo!". You Should Be So Lucky hits February 18. 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench has enlisted a stellar group of musicians to help him with his first-ever solo album, You Should Be So Lucky. The record—which is set for release on February 18 via Blue Note Records—features a core band of Don Was, Ethan Johns, Blake Milles and Jeremy Stacey, as well as contribution from Ryan Adams, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Joel Jerome, Tom Petty and Ringo Starr.

Tench will celebrate the release of You Should Be So Lucky with two intimate shows at the Largo in Los Angeles on February 20 and 21. Tickets to those gigs will go on sale this Friday, December 20 at 10am PT.

You Should Be So Lucky tracklist:

1. Today I Took Your Picture Down (B. Tench)
2. Veronica Said (B. Tench)
3. Ecor Rouge (B. Tench)
4. Hannah (B. Tench)
5. Blonde Girl, Blue Dress (B. Tench)
6. You Should Be So Lucky (B. Tench)
7. Corrina, Corrina (traditional, arr. Dylan)
8. Dogwood (B. Tench/L.Carol)
9. Like The Sun (Michoacan) (B. Tench)
10. Wobbles (B. Tench)
11. Why Don’t You Quit Leaving Me Alone (B. Tench)
12. Duquesne Whistle (B. Dylan/R.Hunter)

LISTEN HERE "BLONDE GIRL, BLUE DRESS" WITH RINGO ON TAMBOURINE: