The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome (2016) FLAC Beolab1700 torrent

The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

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The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
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Artist...............: The Rolling Stones
Album................: Blue & Lonesome
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2016
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 64 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: **thanks to Denny Crane**

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 27/11/2016

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When it was announced that the Rolling Stones were to release an album of blues covers, no one voiced a word of disappointment. For while Stones fans invariably welcome brand new material from the pens of Messrs Jagger and Richards, it’s when they return to the source that they truly set pulses racing. No other band executes the blues quite like the Stones. They invariably play with reverential respect to the spirit and feel of the original recordings, but bring much more to the table.
In 1964, their first album not only seduced a generation of teeny screamers from simmering repression, it also provided an alluring glimpse of a musical tradition with an appeal hitherto limited to a purist hard-core but that boasted the power and potential to conquer the world.
The Stones were blues evangelists. Their eponymous debut introduced future standards by Willie Dixon and Jimmy Reed into the mainstream yet, while remaining true to the originals, they infused each recording with a raw vitality and licentious swagger that was quintessentially Stones.

While all that remains of the Stones’ ’64 line-up is the central core of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, they have since accrued 156 more years experience in providing blues material with their unmistakable signature spin. Where once was pianist Ian Stewart is Chuck Leavell; where once taciturn bassist Bill Wyman, Darryl Jones. But the most crucial difference between ‘those’ Stones and ‘these’ Stones is the substitution of Ronnie Wood for Brian Jones. For while Jones was the Stones’ most fervent student of the blues, and duly applied himself to proceedings with meticulous care and attention, Ronnie is more of a visceral, intuitive player, who in the heat of the dual guitar weave has always had a tendency to crank up the inherent brutality in Keith.

Aside from the influence Ronnie’s exuberance has had on the Stones’ increased (and, apparently, increasing) aptitude for the casual attainment of blues perfection, Watts’s ever-reliable swing is a factor that can’t be over-estimated. When locked into a chopped, or indeed caressed, Keith groove it’s undeniable; the irreplaceable foundation upon which the Stones have built a global empire.

Today’s Rolling Stones, in spite of all the fix-in-the-mix temptations today’s digital age has to offer, retain a skill set far beyond most contemporary artists. They’re just as, if not more, capable of recording completely live in the studio as they were when they first entered Regent Sound Studios in ’64. Upon reconvening at British Grove Studios in Chiswick last December with co-producer Don Was, the band reportedly set up in the round, facing an array of microphones in the centre of the circle, and three days later emerged with an album. And from the first note of Blue & Lonesome that’s exactly what you hear: a band in exceptional form, captured raw, vital, alive and – above all – kicking. Kicking harder than you’d expect of a band in their proud, preening, priapic prime. Just as hard as any band extant and certainly as hard as the Stones have ever kicked before.

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