Blue & Lonesome (Rolling Stones album)
"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.Joining vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards as producers was Don Was, who'd been working with the group for most of the prior two decades.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).In April 2016, at the launch of the Rolling Stones career retrospective Exhibitionism, the band confirmed that their new album was due to be released "some time in the autumn".On 6 October 2016, the Rolling Stones changed their tongue and lips logo, which first appeared on their Sticky Fingers album, from red to blue.[18] Kitty Empire from The Observer called it "a labour of love",[24] while Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said the Stones here are "more alive than they've sounded for years".[21] Robert Christgau was less impressed in Vice, saying the album is "a sodden thing – many old rockers have recorded sharper, spunkier, wiser music".