Blue & Lonesome

Blue & Lonesome
The Rolling Stones studio album
Publication (s)	2nd December 2016
admission	December 11 , 14 and 15, 2015
Label (s)	Polydor Records
Format (s)	CD , LP , digital
Genre (s)	Blues-rock , Chicago blues
Title (number)	12
running time	42:36
occupation	Mick Jagger - vocals , harmonica Keith Richards - lead guitar , rhythm guitar Ronnie Wood - lead guitar , rhythm guitar Charlie Watts - drums Eric Clapton - slide guitar , lead guitar Darryl Jones - bass Matt Clifford - keyboard Jim Keltner - percussion
production	Don Was , Mick Jagger , Keith Richards
Studio (s)	British Grove Studios, London
chronology A Bigger Bang (2005) Blue & Lonesome -

Blue & Lonesome is the 23rd studio album by the British band The Rolling Stones and brings together twelve covered blues songs (e.g. by Little Walter , Jimmy Reed and Willie Dixon ). The songs are decades old and some of them are standards. The album was released worldwide on December 2nd, 2016.

production

It is the first album since Dirty Work (1986) on which Mick Jagger did not play guitar in addition to vocals - but he does play the harmonica; and it's also the first since It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974) that Keith Richards does not contribute lead vocals. In addition to the other Rolling Stones members Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts , Eric Clapton (on Everybody Knows About My Good Thing and I Can't Quit You Baby ), Darryl Jones , Matt Clifford, Chuck Leavell and Jim Keltner (on Hoo Doo Blues ).

Blue & Lonesome was released on the British label Polydor Records .

Track list

1. Just Your Fool (Original by Buddy Johnson , 1953) - 2:16
2. Commit a Crime ( Howlin 'Wolf , 1966) - 3:38
3. Blue and Lonesome ( Memphis Slim , 1949) - 3:07
4. All of Your Love ( Magic Sam , 1957) - 4:46
5. I Gotta Go (Little Walter, 1955) - 3:26
6. Everybody Knows About My Good Thing ( Miles Grayson , Lermon Horton) - 4:30
7. Ride 'Em On Down ( Eddie Taylor ) - 2:48
8. Hate to See You Go (Little Walter) - 3:20
9. Hoo Doo Blues ( Otis Hicks , Jerry West) - 2:36
10. Little Rain ( Ewart G. Abner Jr. , Jimmy Reed ) - 3:32
11. Just Like I Treat You (Willie Dixon, 1961) - 3:24
12. I Can't Quit You Baby (Willie Dixon, 1956) - 5:13

reception

Blue & Lonesome was positively received by the trade press . The renowned Rolling Stone magazine rated the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars. Allmusic gave the same rating. The German online magazine Laut.de rated Blue & Lonesome with 4 out of 5 points and praised it as “one of the best long players of the band in the last three and a half decades”.

Jens-Christian Rabe formulated a few reservations in his review of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : The Stones are “definitely a good blues band”, but the title song from Memphis Slim sounds more like “a finger exercise to warm up”; at Commit a Crime by Howlin 'Wolf , they provide the instrumental track finally actually deceptively real thing but now do all the more clear that "Jaggers voice just is not the deep power of Howlin' Wolf's voice" had. ... "out of the comfort zone, frozen in the will to authenticity."

Web links

• Blue & Lonesome at Discogs (English)
• The Rolling Stones' New Album 'Blue & Lonesome' Has Dropped (English)
• Mick Jagger on the Stones album "Blue & Lonesome" NDR video with Jagger. (Publ. Dec. 5, 2016, duration: 5:08 min. Jagger talks about the making of the recordings and the Cuba concert)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Song Review by Mark Romano , Allmusic
2. ↑ z. B. on Red Rooster, 1982, # 9
3. ↑ Track Listing, # 22  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Theme song  
4. ↑ Magic Sam - All Your Love / Love Me With A Feeling at Discogs (English)
5. ↑ Eddie Taylor played his version on December 5, 1955. In contrast to the information on the cover, the Delta Blues title can be traced back to Bukka White in 1937 .
6. ↑ Gerard Herzhaft u. a :: Encyclopedia of the Blues. University of Arkansas Press, 1992, ISBN 1-55728-252-8 , p. 470.
7. ^ Later President of Vee-Jay Records
8. ↑ Willie Dixon, sung by Howlin 'Wolf in December 1961.
9. ^ Gerard Herzhaft, Paul Harris, Jerry Hanssler, Anton J. Mikofsky: Encyclopedia of The Blues . 2nd Edition. University of Arkansas Press, 1997, ISBN 1-55728-452-0 .
10. ↑ Other versions: A variety of musicians have recorded the song, including John Lee Hooker for his album More Real Folk Blues (produced 1966, released 1991), John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers for Crusade (1967), Little Milton as a single on Checker Records (1969), Nine Below Zero for Live at the Venue (1989), Willie Dixon for I Am the Blues (1969), Dread Zeppelin for Un-Led-Ed (1990) and Gary Moore for Power of the Blues (2004) .
11. ↑ Review: The Rolling Stones Reinvigorate the Blues on Blue and Lonesome on Rolling Stone .com (December 6, 2016)
12. ↑ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on Allmusic .com (December 6, 2016)
13. ↑ laut.de review: Dirty solos and dust-dry riffs on Laut.de , author: Sven Kabelitz (December 6, 2016)
14. ↑ Jens-Christian Rabe: The True . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 2, 2016, p. 11.