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THE ROLLING STONES – BLUE & LONESOME
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The Stones’ 23rd UK and 25th US studio album, Blue & Lonesome (named after the very “Blue and Lonesome” song written by Little Walter) was released on December 2 2016 and features all blues cover versions, in fact the band’s first all-covers album ever. It’s also the Stones’ first full-length album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang, which marked the band’s longest gap between two albums (a total 11 years) and still retaining the same production team and core musicians: Don Was joined singer Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as producers after working with the group for the past 20 years, also featuring Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and multi-instrumentalist Matt Clifford. Blue & Lonesome also includes guerst appearances by Eric Clapton (guitar on two songs) and drummer Jim Keltner. It was released as a double LP, despite its running time of about 43 minutes.

Recorded along three sessions at London’s British Grove Studios, the album (the Stones’ last one with drummer Charlie Watts before his death in 2021) reached number one on the album charts in more than a dozen countries, including the UK, and peaked at number 4 in the US. This was also the Stones’ first album of the streaming media era, with many of the album’s songs reached the top 40 on multiple digital music charts, with its lead single “Just Your Fool” reaching the top 40 in multiple streams and genres, receiving four and five-star ratings from numerous music journalists and praise from jazz and blues publications. Additionally Blue & Lonesome won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, the group’s first Grammy Award in 23 years.

In April 2016, when the Rolling Stones’ career retrospective Exhibitionism opened, the band confirmed that their new album would be released in the autumn. Richards said the album would feature “a lot of Chicago blues”.

Blue & Lonesome is as well the band’s first album since Dirty Work (1986) on which Jagger does not play guitar (focusing instead on vocals and harmonica) It is also the first Stones’ record without Richards on lead vocals since It’s Only Rock’n Roll (1974)

TRACKLIST
SIDE A:
Just Your Fool (Marion Walter Jacobs)
Commit A Crime (Chester Burnett)
Blue And Lonesome (Marion Walter Jacobs)

SIDE B:
All Of Your Love (Samuel Maghett)
I Gotta Go (Marion Walter Jacobs)
Everybody Knows About My Good Thing (Miles Grayson/Lermon Horton)

SIDE C:
Ride ‘Em On Down (Eddie Taylor)
Hate To See You Go (Marion Walter Jacobs)
Hoo Doo Blues (Otis Hicks/Jerry West)

SIDE D:
Little Rain (Ewart G. Abner Jr./Jimmy Reed)
Just Like I Treat You (Willie Dixon)
I Can’t Quit You Baby (Willie Dixon)

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