American Songwriter

The Key Player That Helped The Rolling Stones Create Their “Best Records”

Albums are rarely ever created merely by band members or lone musicians. Has it been done? Yes, but not very often. That being said, it takes a whole team of people to create an album. A team that ...
Jazz

Rolling Stones: Black and Blue (2CD)

Forgetting for the moment any revisionism applied to the The Rolling Stones album Black & Blue (Rolling Stones Records, 1976), the iconic British band was in more than a little disarray when it ...
Forbes

Rolling Stones Score A New Top 10 With Music Fans Have Been Loving For Decades

The Rolling Stones debut the decades-old album Black and Blue inside the top 10 on multiple charts in the band's home country after a special reissue. (MANDATORY CREDIT Watal Asanuma/Shinko ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

RECORDINGS | OPINION: Rolling Stones “Black and Blue” — revisiting the album that marked their mid-’70s identity crisis

It's tempting to call "Black and Blue" the Rolling Stones' first bad album. Yet that judgment collapses too much complexity into a single word. Bad, after all, implies failure, and "Black and Blue" ...
American Songwriter

5 Tidbits You Didn’t Know About ‘Some Girls’ by The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones shook off what many considered a bit of a slump for them with their 1978 album Some Girls. After they seemed to be treading water for a few records, they fired back with a purpose, ...