Jagger’s delivery, too, is forceful and direct, a reminder of how astute an interpreter of blues songs he can be. Consequently, Mick Jagger’s harp playing is one of the album’s defining features: diving and swooping through Keith and Ron’s guitar lines, alternating between the raucous (“ Just Like I Treat You”) and more sultry, soulful tones (“ Blue And Lonesome”). A Muddy Waters cohort, Walter was a fiery, preternaturally gifted harmonica player. The album opens with “ Just Your Fool” – one of four songs on the album written by Little Walter. Among their peers, only Neil Young moves at such a clip – and even then, his new album Peace Trail was recorded in a comparatively leisurely four days.Īt its best, Blue & Lonesome finds the Stones fired up. For a group operating at their level, accustomed to spending several months working on an album, it seems emboldened with drama and risk. Blue & Lonesome took three days to record – the Stones working instinctively, seizing a brief window of opportunity without questioning it. You could be forgiven for thinking, then, that Blue & Lonesome is a little like trying to put the genie back in the bottle.īut such intellectual considerations are not entirely the point here. “ Love In Vain”, “ Ventilator Blues”, “ Midnight Rambler”. Since then, they have occasionally returned to the blues – but then strictly on their own terms. They rejected the conservative orthodoxy represented by Chris Barber, Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, instead moving on to Aftermath, “ … Satisfaction”, country rock, Nellcôte and beyond. In many ways, Blue & Lonesome resembles just the kind of album they might have made together: a collection of 11 covers of lesser-known Chicago blues songs that casts the Stones back to the very beginnings of their career on the British R’n’B scene.Īlthough the Stones came in with the blues, look what happened a little later. Although it was subsequently debunked, at the time the idea of the Stones collaborating on new music with White seemed a genuinely exciting prospect. In 2009, there was a rumour doing the rounds that The Rolling Stones were considering working on a new album with Jack White. See Alkan’s post, as well as a picture from the band themselves, below.
DJ Erol Alkan first broke the news – as well as revealing that he would be producing the forthcoming LP – on his Instagram account, posting an in-the-studio picture of the band recording with the caption “Currently in the studio with Ride producing their forthcoming album.” It now appears that the band are working on their first album in over 20 years. I’d be disappointed if that was all we did.” “It feels like maybe we didn’t get to fulfill some aspects of some things that we like to do. “With Ride, there were a lot of people that wanted to see us play together again,” said Loz Colbert.
“I don’t want to spook the horse, I’d like to see where it goes after the gigs,” added Andy Bell. It’s lovely to have a second run like this.” “I think some great things will come out of this ,” said Mark Gardener. Speaking to Uncut in early 2015, they discussed the possibility of recording new music once the tour was completed. Ride officially reunited in 2014 for a tour. The four-piece last released a full-length record, Tarantula, in March 1996. Ride will release their first album in over 20 years in 2017.
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