The album received high critical praise, receiving four- and five-star ratings from many top music journalism outlets, and accolades from jazz and blues publications. The first Stones album of the streaming media age, many of the songs from the album charted on several top-40 digital music charts, and the lead single " Just Your Fool" was a top-40 hit on several airplay and genre-specific charts. It was certified gold or platinum in several countries. Recorded over a marathon three-day session in December 2015, the album was released a year later to robust sales reaching number one on the album charts in the UK and over a dozen other countries, and number four in the US.
Eric Clapton contributed guitar on two tracks and drummer Jim Keltner plays percussion on another. In the studio were band members Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Charlie Watts (drums), alongside contract players Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (multi-instrumentalist).
Joining vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards as producers was Don Was, who had been working with the group for most of the prior two decades. Though there had been an eleven-year gap between albums, the Rolling Stones kept the same basic production and musician team as A Bigger Bang. The name of the album is from a song which Little Walter wrote, "Blue and Lonesome". " Just Your Fool", a Buddy Johnson cover (though the Rolling Stones version is based on Little Walter's arrangement) was released as the first single from the album on 6 October. Despite the short time length of just around 43 minutes, the album was released as a double LP. It is the band's first album to feature only cover songs, and their first studio release since 2005's A Bigger Bang, with its eleven-year gap being the longest between two albums from the band. They released two LPs on Warner Brothers Records, 1974’s Badfinger and Wish You Were Here, before disbanding in 1975 after Ham hung himself in his Surrey garage studio at age 27.Blue & Lonesome is the 23rd British and 25th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones released on 2 December 2016. “We write our own songs and we like simplicity and rock and roll, and we’re basically a three guitars/drums lineup.”īadfinger recorded one more album for Apple, 1973’s Ass. “We have no front man like Joe Cocker or Jagger, and no great guitarist like Hendrix or Clapton.” Added Ham of the band’s frequent comparisons to labelmates, the Beatles: ” It’s very hard not to be similar,” he explained. “We’re just ordinary,” drummer Mike Gibbens told Rolling Stone in 1971. In the end, rocker Todd Rundgren swooped in to finish off production on the project.ĭespite its charting success, Badfinger never saw themselves as rock stars. George Harrison then stepped in to produce the album, before pulling out to focus on his previous commitments to the now-legendary Concert for Bangladesh. Badfinger recorded the LP at Clearwell Castle, in the Southwest English town of Gloucestershire, only to have Apple reject the first Geoff Emerick-produced offering. The track may have put a beautiful blue bow on what was in many ways a clean-and-tidy resolution to five mayhem-filled seasons of Breaking Bad, but Straight Up’s backstory was a far more rocky road.
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