The Rolling Stones have announced details of their first studio album in over a decade.
Blue & Lonesome is released on December 2.
Produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins, the album was recorded over the course of just three days in December last year at British Grove Studios in West London.
The album consists of 12 tracks, all covers of Chicago blues songs.
The band – Mick Jagger (vocals & harp), Keith Richards (guitar), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were joined by their long time touring sidemen Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards) and Matt Clifford (keyboards) and, for two of the twelve tracks, by Eric Clapton.
Blue & Lonesome will be available on the following formats: CD, Digital Download, Double heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with album download card and Deluxe edition including CD album, 75-page mini-book about the making of the album and band postcard prints. It is available to pre-order now by clicking here.
The tracklisting for Blue & Lonesome is:
1. Just Your Fool
(Original written and recorded in 1960 by Little Walter)
2. Commit A Crime
(Original written and recorded in 1966 by Howlin’ Wolf – Chester Burnett)
3. Blue And Lonesome
(Original written and recorded in 1959 by Little Walter)
4. All Of Your Love
(Original written and recorded in 1967 by Magic Sam – Samuel Maghett)
5. I Gotta Go
(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Little Walter)
6. *Everybody Knows About My Good Thing
(Original recorded in 1971 by Little Johnny Taylor, composed by Miles Grayson & Lermon Horton)
7. Ride ‘Em On Down
(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Eddie Taylor)
8. Hate To See You Go
(Original written and recorded in 1955 by Little Walter)
9. **Hoo Doo Blues
(Original recorded in 1958 by Lightnin’ Slim, composed by Otis Hicks & Jerry West)
10. Little Rain
(Original recorded in 1957 by Jimmy Reed, composed by Ewart.G.Abner Jr. and Jimmy Reed)
11. Just Like I Treat You
(Original written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin’ Wolf in December 1961)
12. *I Can’t Quit You Baby
(Original written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Otis Rush in 1956)
*Eric Clapton: Guitar
**Jim Keltner: Percussion