The Rolling Stones get ‘Blue & Lonesome' on upcoming album

On Dec. 2, The Rolling Stones will release ‘Blue & Lonesome,’ their first studio album in more than a decade. It was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins and was recorded over the course of three days in December last year at British Grove Studios in West London, just a stone’s throw from Richmond and Eel Pie Island where the Stones started out as a young blues band playing pubs and clubs.

Their approach to the album was that it should be spontaneous and played live in the studio without overdubs. The band – Mick Jagger (vocals & harp), Keith Richards (guitar), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were joined by their long time touring sidemen Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (keyboards) and, for two of the 12 tracks, by old friend Eric Clapton, who happened to be in the next studio making his own album.

‘Blue & Lonesome’ sees the Rolling Stones tipping their hats to their early days as a blues band when they played the music of Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Eddie Taylor, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf – artists whose songs are featured on this album.

“This album is manifest testament to the purity of their love for making music, and the blues is, for the Stones, the fountainhead of everything they do,” said Don Was.

Formats/Track listing:

CD/DOWNLOAD
CD album comes with 16 page booklet
 
Just Your Fool
Commit A Crime
Blue And Lonesome
All Of Your Love
I Gotta Go
Everybody Knows About My Good Thing
Ride 'Em On Down
Hate To See You Go
Hoo Doo Blues
Little Rain
Just Like I Treat You
I Can't Quit You Baby
 
Deluxe Boxset

Deluxe edition including CD album, 75 page mini-book about the making of the album and band postcard prints.
 
VINYL

Double heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with album download card.
 
Side A
Just Your Fool
Commit A Crime
Blue And Lonesome
 
Side B
All Of Your Love
I Gotta Go
Everybody Knows About My Good Thing
 
Side C
Ride 'Em On Down
Hate To See You Go
Hoo Doo Blues
 
Side D
Little Rain
Just Like I Treat You
I Can't Quit You Baby