THE ROLLING STONES are celebrating their 1976 album, ”Black and Blue”, with this comprehensive Super Deluxe 4-CD box set, including a fresh Steven Wilson Remix 2025.
This collection includes a new Steven Wilson stereo mix of the album, unreleased outtakes, and a live recording from their 1976 Earls Court show, complete (21 tracks).
The Earls Court show is previously unreleased officially, with a very good sound quality. The ‘Outtakes and Jams’ disc offer previously unreleased audio, including the high-energy disco stomp of Shirley and Company’s ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’ and jams with guitarists including Jeff Beck, Canned Heat’s Harvey Mandel and Robert A. Johnson. These recordings were done while the Stones were auditioning guitarists, and finally Ronnie Wood get the slot.
”Black and Blue” marked a pivotal moment, as it was the first to feature Ronnie Wood as a full member, contributing his iconic guitar work. Acclaimed at the time by Billboard as being ‘one of their most purely enjoyable albums of the ‘70s’ the reputation of the LP has only grown, with Uncut declaiming ‘Forty-one minutes of super-tight, bone-dry, hi-fi rock and soul, Black and Blue is one of the Stones’ most underrated albums’.
”Black and Blue” captured the band at a moment of transition, figuring out how to move forward without Mick Taylor, the guitarist who left the band late in 1974. Among other things, Taylor grew frustrated with the songwriting stranglehold Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had in the band. They, in turn, viewed him as a hotshot guitarist who added flash and color to the Stones.
So, it makes perfect sense that when they needed to replace him, they auditioned a host of guitarists that fit that description. There was Harvey Mandel, who joined Canned Heat in time for their set at Woodstock in 1969; Wayne Perkins, who was fresh from playing on Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark; Memphis young gun Robert A. Johnson; and Jeff Beck, a fellow veteran of the British blues scene who spent the early 1970s struggling to find his footing in a series of hard-rock combos.
Another guitarist showed up at these sessions: Ronnie Wood…
Tracklist:
Disc 1 of 4
1. Hot Stuff (2025 Mix) (05:22)
2. Hand Of Fate (2025 Mix) (04:28)
3. Cherry Oh Baby (2025 Mix) (03:53)
4. Memory Motel (2025 Mix) (07:07)
5. Hey Negrita (2025 Mix) (05:00)
6. Melody (2025 Mix) (05:48)
7. Fool To Cry (2025 Mix) (05:02)
8. Crazy Mama (2025 Mix) (04:35)
Disc 2 of 4
1. I Love Ladies (05:30)
2. Shame, Shame, Shame (04:05)
3. Chuck Berry Style Jam (05:29)
4. Blues Jam (09:22)
5. Rotterdam Jam (07:45)
6. Freeway Jam (05:35)
Disc 3 of 4
1. Honky Tonk Women (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:34)
2. If You Can’t Rock Me/Get Off My Cloud (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (05:37)
3. Hand Of Fate (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:56)
4. Hey Negrita (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:35)
5. Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:11)
6. Fool To Cry (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:56)
7. Hot Stuff (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:25)
8. Star Star (Starfucker) (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:01)
9. You Gotta Move (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:06)
10. You Can't Always Get What You Want (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (07:53)
11. Band Intro (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (01:09)
12. Happy (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:03)
13. Tumbling Dice (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:47)
14. Nothing From Nothing (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (02:46)
15. Outa-Space (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (04:32)
Disc 4 of 4
1. Midnight Rambler (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (11:03)
2. It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (05:02)
3. Brown Sugar (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:21)
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (03:22)
5. Street Fighting Man (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (05:55)
6. Sympathy For The Devil (Live At Earls Court, London, UK / 1976) (08:11)
The Rolling Stones – Black And Blue (Super Deluxe 4CD) (2025)
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