The Rolling Stones announce 23rd studio album ‘Blue & Lonesome’

Titled ‘Blue & Lonesome’, the 12-track album was recorded over just three days at British Grove Studios in West London with The Glimmer Twins (aka Keith and Mick) co-producing alongside their long-time collaborator Don Was (Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop).

The band’s first long-player since 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang’ will be released via Polydor Records on Friday 2nd December and it’s available to pre-order from rollingstones.com now.

Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie were joined in the studio by touring band members Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (keyboards). Jim Keltner guests on percussion on ‘Hoo Doo Blues’.

Their good friend and fellow blues aficionado Eric Clapton performs on two tracks - ‘Everybody Knows About My Good Thing’ and ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’. He was conveniently recording his new album next door while The Stones were in the studio.

Artists covered on the record include Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Eddie Taylor, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf.

Co-producer Don Was says: “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.”

‘Blue & Lonesome’ will be released in 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 full track-list is as follows:

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