THE STONES, EVER AND EVER

On 2nd December 2016, The Rolling Stones will release Blue & Lonesome, their first studio album in over a decade. 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.

The album was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins and 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 were joined by their long time touring sidemen Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (keyboards) and on two 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.” Don Was, Co-Producer of Blue & Lonesome.
1. Just Your Fool (Little Walter)
2. Commit a Crime (Chester Burnett)
3. Blue and Lonesome (Little Walter)
4. All of Your Love (Samuel Maghett)
5. I Gotta Go (Little Walter)
6. Everybody Knows About My Good Thing (Miles Grayson/Lermon Horton)
7. Ride ‘Em On Down (Eddie Taylor)
8. Hate To See You Go (Little Walter)
9. Hoo Doo Blues (Otis Hicks/Jerry West)
10. Little Rain (Ewart Abner/Jimmy Reed)
11. Just Like I Treat You (Willie Dixon) (feat. Eric Clapton)
12. I Can’t Quit You Baby (Willie Dixon) (feat. Eric Clapton)