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.
