{"id":12413,"date":"2017-03-09T05:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2017-03-09T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:43:53","slug":"album-review-the-rolling-stones-blue-lonesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/album-review-the-rolling-stones-blue-lonesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Rolling Stones &#8212; Blue &#038; Lonesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12414\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stones_blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stones_blue.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stones_blue-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>File next to: Eric Clapton, Howlin&#8217; Wolf, Willie Dixon<\/p>\n<p>Few people expected the <strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong> to make a very good (and quite possibly great) album in 2016. The year of rock star and celebrity death spared <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong>; that itself was remarkable enough. But for <i>Blue &amp; Lonesome<\/i>, their 23<sup>rd<\/sup> studio album \u2013 and their first in more than a decade \u2013 the Stones returned to their roots. Their self-titled 1964 debut had three original tunes out of twelve; <i>Blue &amp; Lonesome<\/i> is all covers. And not just any covers: the selection of mostly Chicago blues takes things right back to where the group started. They don&#8217;t sound exactly like old bluesmen \u2013 though all but <strong>Ronnie Wood<\/strong> (a youngster at 69) are approaching their mid-70s \u2013 but they tear into these songs with all the gutbucket feel of their blues and forebears. They&#8217;re superb interpreters of these classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Eric Clapton, Howlin&#8217; Wolf, Willie Dixon Few people expected the Rolling Stones to make a very good (and quite possibly great) album in 2016. The year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,49,62,65],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-12413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-rolling-stones","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12415,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions\/12415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}