Rolling Stones 30th Album Goes Back to the Blues

One might write it off as an April Fool’s prank had it not been announced by BB6 on April 5th, but the truth is tracks have been recorded for a new Rolling Stones album. It is their 30th studio album to be exact and their first since A Bigger Bang in 2005.
The “Rollin’ Stones”, made up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart and Dick Taylor played their very first gig together on July 12th, 1962 at the Marquee Club in London. Their set was made up entirely of Chicago blues covers with lots of bo diddley and Chuck Berry Songs. Taking their band name from the Muddy Waters song, they began life as a blues band and now, 54 years later are coming out with a heavily blues influenced album.
Details are scarce at the moment; no album title, art work or release date has been issued, however, according to Ron Wood, the new record would be released, “sometime this year”. He also said, “It was like, ‘this is what the Stones do, we play blues'”, speaking of the sessions which included recording 11 songs in just 2 days. “We didn’t spend any time rehearsing them or anything. We just picked a song that suited Mick’s harmonica or a guitar riff… and they worked out pretty good.”