Music City Recorders, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Producer: Pete Drake
Engineer: Scotty Moore
Beaucoups Of Blues, Ringo Starr’s second solo album, was recorded over a three-day period in Nashville, Tennessee, in June 1970.
Two sessions took place on each day: from 6-9pm, and 10pm to 1am the following morning.
The second set of sessions were on Friday 26 June 1970. From 6pm the musicians worked on two songs: ‘I’d Be Talking All The Time’ by Chuck Howard and Larry Kingston, and ‘$15 Draw’ by Sorrells Pickard.
Two more songs were recorded during the late night session: ‘Wine, Women And Loud Happy Songs’ by Kingston, and ‘The Wishing Book’, which was ultimately left off the album. Howard and Pickard both played guitar on the album recordings.
On 27 August 1992, Sotheby’s actioned a number of acetates which previously belonged to Beatles assistant Mal Evans. Two, titled ‘Ringo In Nashville’, contained rough mixes of the Beaucoups Of Blues songs, plus ‘The Wishing Book’.