ROLLING STONES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

The Rolling Stones will release ‘Blue & Lonesome’, their first studio album in over a decade. Recorded in just three days in London, England, ‘Blue & Lonesome’ takes the band back to their roots and the passion for blues music which has always been at the heart and soul of The Rolling Stones.

‘Blue & Lonesome’ is available in various formats and will be released on December 2nd by Polydor Records. It was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins and is available for pre-order worldwide from today, October 6th, at 9am EST in the USA and 2pm in the UK (equivalent times worldwide), go to rollingstones.com.

The album was recorded over the course of just 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 twelve 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.

The tracks are - 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.

“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.” Don Was, Co-Producer of ‘Blue & Lonesome’

THE ROLLING STONES - ‘BLUE & LONESOME’ WILL BE RELEASED BY POLYDOR RECORDS WORLDWIDE ON 2 DECEMBER 2016

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For more information, please contact Bernard Doherty and Alex Sutton at LD Communications:

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The album is available on the following formats:

CD

Digital Download

Double heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with album download card

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

The Rolling Stones ‘Blue & Lonesome’ full tracklisting

1. Just Your Fool

(Original written and recorded in 1960 by Little Walter)

2.  Commit A Crime

(Original written and recorded in 1966 by Howlin’ Wolf - Chester Burnett)

3. Blue And Lonesome

(Original written and recorded in 1959 by Little Walter)

4. All Of Your Love

(Original written and recorded in 1967 by Magic Sam - Samuel Maghett)

5. I Gotta Go

(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Little Walter)

6. *Everybody Knows About My Good Thing

(Original recorded in 1971 by Little Johnny Taylor, composed by Miles Grayson & Lermon Horton)

7. Ride ‘Em On Down

(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Eddie Taylor)

8. Hate To See You Go

(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Little Walter)

9. **Hoo Doo Blues

(Original recorded in 1958 by Lightnin’ Slim, composed by Otis Hicks & Jerry West)

10. Little Rain

(Original recorded in 1957 by Jimmy Reed, composed by Ewart.G.Abner Jr. and Jimmy Reed)

11. Just Like I Treat You

(Original written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf in December 1961)

12. *I Can’t Quit You Baby

(Original written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Otis Rush in 1956)

All tracks feature:

Mick Jagger: Vocals & Harp, Keith Richards: Guitar, Charlie Watts: Drums, Ronnie Wood: Guitar,

Darryl Jones: Bass, Chuck Leavell: Keyboards, Matt Clifford: Keyboards

Guests:

*Eric Clapton: Guitar

**Jim Keltner: Percussion

Notes to Editors:

To celebrate the release of ‘Blue & Lonesome’, the first blues album from The Rolling Stones, the iconic lips have been turned blue with the new blue logo incorporated into a nationwide teaser campaign. London was illuminated last night (5 October) with projections featuring the blue lips across famous locations around the city including Marble Arch and the Centre Point building. The album title was announced via a special 360 reveal on Facebook where fans can also add the blue lips to their profiles pictures. A custom ‘blue lips’ emoji has launched on Twitter where anyone tweeting the hashtag #rollingstones will see a special the blue lips emoji appear.