Stones blues album

[Sinner1980]

The album is in fact great! I can't believe Mick's vocal capability on his 72nd, simply amazing!

I hope that this will inspire a lot of people to pick up instruments and start playing some sweet blues again or at least start listening to it.

With the Stones having so many followers, young and old(and some very old), I believe this could inspire people to dive into the blues so hoping to see some bands pop up (again) but mostly hope to see younger audiences at blues gigs in general.

 

[AJ Love]

A love letter to a way of playing Blues that has one foot in the grave.

Leave it to the Stones to make the most relevant Blues album in a decade.

 

[Obsessed]

Dang, I just heard, "Just Your Fool" and Mick nails the harmonica of Little Walter's version. Wow.

Exciting.

 

[Georox]

Listened to most of the album yesterday. Liked what I heard.

 

[tap4154]

Love it! Love that first video too! Just saw Keith and Mick on CBS Sunday Morning. They said this began as just playing warm-ups during a session in Mark Knopfler's studio. They claim all the songs are straight-thru live tracks, wasn't planned as an album either.

 

[AJ Love]

They claim all the songs are straight-thru live tracks

That is pretty much the only way to record this style of music and have it sound authentic

 

[Maxwell Street]

That is pretty much the only way to record this style of music and have it sound authentic

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-the-rolling-stones-blue-and-lonesome-w453332

 

[Maxwell Street]

The album sounds tapey...thick, dirty and distorted in the best way. It sounds like authentic Chicago blues.

"This is not digital crap" Keith...details in the link

http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/News/en-us/Keith-Richards-Looking-Forward-To-Volume-2.aspx

 

[HotRodSteve]

First new album I've bought in years, been listening to it constantly, good stuff.

 

[AJ Love]

"....according to Ronnie Wood, the band don’t intend on slowing down now.

'Howlin’ Wolf almost died on stage, plugged into his kidney machine, so there’s no reason why we wouldn’t go exactly the same way,' Wood says"

Right on right on

 

[kinkstah]

Great straight Chicago blues. Mick shines on harp!

 

[falcon5romeo]

Mick's voice sounds better than ever! And man, that low-down dirty crunch on the rhythm guitar is nasty. 10/10!

 

[dlew919]

Finally heard it. I suspect it's a grower. Good but hasn't grabbed me yet. But I think it will.

 

[Coop47]

Finally heard it. I suspect it's a grower. Good but hasn't grabbed me yet. But I think it will.

Me too. I don't love it yet, but I love that they just rolled tape and did it.

 

[Honest Charley]

Oh, it is so Good hearing the blues again from these buggers!!

 

[burntfrijoles]

Clapton never got the blues as far as I know

Have to assume that's sarcasm.

 

[dkmw]

Ride 'Em On Down kicks *ss.

Mick's harp playing shouldn't surprise anyone, it's always been there just doesn't get used much in their ''normal'' stuff.

The opening of Midnight Rambler is a showcase for it, though. Keef said he wrote MR as a Chicago-blues for Mick Taylor to rip on, but Jagger's harp part rips too.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Keith never fell prey to the white boy looooong blues solo thing.

And when they did get a great white boy blues player - they kept him on a short leash.

Which was a good thing.

Keith and Mick were influenced by what they heard growing up/what they revered when they first started - 3:00 minute blues songs by the masters.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

Wait - did Don Was ruin it ?

 

[dlew919]

Keith never fell prey to the white boy looooong blues solo thing.

And when they did get a great white boy blues player - they kept him on a short leash.

Which was a good thing.

Keith and Mick were influenced by what they heard growing up/what they revered when they first started - 3:00 minute blues songs by the masters.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

I hope Don Was didn't ruin it.

Wait - did Don Was ruin it ?

No. don was didn't ruin it.

 

[Alamo]

Blue & Lonesome is a great blues album and it's selling like hot cakes.

From Music Week:
Commentary by, Alan Jones


Their first album comprised entirely of covers, their first studio album in 11 years and their 23rd studio album in all, Blue & Lonesome makes a resounding debut atop the chart for The Rolling Stones, with first week sales of 105,830, the highest for any artist album since David Bowie's Blackstar opened 47 weeks ago on sales of 146,168 in the wake of his death.

Making a much bigger bang than their last studio album, A Bigger Bang - which debuted and peaked at No.2 in 2005 on sales of 43,466, just 11 fewer than the tally with which James Blunt's Back To Bedlam topped the list that week - Blue & Lonesome sold more copies last week than any Rolling Stones album in any week in the 21st century, surpassing the 104,256 copies that compilation Forty Licks shifted at No.11 in the week before Christmas in 2002.

Blue & Lonesome is The Rolling Stones' 11th No.1 album, and their first new one since Voodoo Lounge, which sold 25,162 copies when debuting atop the chart in 1994, although 1972 chart-topper Exile On Main Street returned to No.1 on reissue in 2010. Several Rolling Stones compilations have sold multi-platinum quantities - the aforementioned Forty Licks, for example, has sold 1,135,934 copies since its release a little over 14 years ago - but none of them have reached No.1, their tally comprising 10 studio albums plus the 1970 live set, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Beatles are the only group to have more No.1 studio albums, with 11.

When The Rolling Stones' eponymous debut album topped the chart in 1964, they were the second youngest vocal group (and the third youngest group of all, behind the Shadows and The Beatles) to have a No.1. With the coronation of Blue & Lonesome - which consists entirely of covers of blues standards, including songs from Jimmy Reed and Willie Dixon, both of whom also had tunes on that very first Rolling Stones album - they become the oldest. With an average age of 72 (Mick Jagger is 73, Keith Richards is 72, Charlie Watts is 75 and Ronnie Wood is 69), they far surpass the previous record of 64 set by Black Sabbath when their 19th studio album 13 topped the chart in 2013. Prior to that, the record was held by The Eagles, who averaged 59 when they had their one and only No.1 album with Long Road Out Of Eden in 2007. Black Sabbath also held the record for a group of having a No.1 album furthest into their recording career, with 13 coming some 43 years after their eponymous 1970 debut - but The Rolling Stones shatter that too, with more than 52 years elapsing since they first burst onto the album scene.

In the top five for the fifth time in a row since its release, Michael Ball & Alfie Boe's Together spends a third week at its peak position of No.2, and records its best sale yet, of 71,042 copies.

No.1 for the past fortnight, Little Mix's Glory Days dips to No.3 (56,513 sales).