Guitarist Keith Richards reveals that his band the Rolling Stones are to begin recording a new album shortly.
The album will be the first record of original studio material from the band since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. The Stones most recent album, last year's Blue & Lonesome featured covers of little-known American blues songs. which was reportedly assembled during sessions for what will be the next studio record.
Ultimate Classic Rock asked the musician if he was inspired to get back in the studio with the Stones and do some more recording. "Yes, we are — very, very shortly," he replied. "Cutting some new stuff and considering where to take it next. Blue & Lonesome caught us a little bit by surprise in that we figured it was something we had to do, but we didn’t expect the response."
Given the outstanding chart - and indeed critical success - which Blue & Lonesome received, the question of Volume Two arose." "I don’t think we’re going to sucker into that straight away," said Richards. "But it wouldn’t take a twist of the arm to do some more of that. It’s such fun to record, and there’s plenty more where that came from."
Blue & Lonesome refreshed the band's spirits, according to Richards and the Rolling Stones are using it as a "boost to their energy."
A new book and companion DVD will be issued in September collecting radio and TV performances from the 1960s. Rolling Stones on Air in the Sixties documents their heady trajectory from a letter sent to the BBC in 1963 to a TV special broadcast by the Beeb in 1969.
