After a week of speculation, the Rolling Stones have announced the release of their 25th studio album, Blue and Lonesome. Described as “five decades in the making and just three days to record”, the album is a collection of blues covers which takes the band back to their roots in the genre. Released on 2 December via Polydor, the Stones’ first studio album in over a decade was recorded in London in December 2015, and features “old friend” Eric Clapton, who happened to be in the next studio making his own album at the time. “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,” says Don Was, who co-produced Blue and Lonesome alongside the Glimmer Twins (a pseudonym for Mick Jagger and Keith Richards). Jagger, Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood were joined by their long-time touring musicians Darryl Jones, Chuck Leavell and Matt Clifford as well as Clapton for the recording.

Source: The Guardian October 06, 2016 14:43 UTC