I GOT THE BLUES: Rolling Stones Announce New Blues Cover Album ‘Blue & Lonesome’

The 12 tracks, recorded in three days at London’s British Grove Studios, all cover songs by classic bluesmen, including Howlin’ Wolf (“Commit a Crime”), Little Walter (“I Gotta Go”) and Jimmy Reed (“Little Rain”). Eric Clapton guests on the group’s cover of Little Johnny Taylor’s “Everybody Knows About My Good Thing” and Otis Rush’s “I Can’t Quit You Baby.” The album doubles as a nod to the band’s formative years, when the band would play covers by their favorite blues artists.

Keith Richards told Rolling Stone in September that the group had been recording in London, cutting several songs in a rapid period. “It was fun – always is,” he said. At the time, he claimed the album would contain “a lot of Chicago blues.”

The band’s last studio album, 2005’s A Bigger Bang, was a big disappointment, but I’m looking forward to this one.