Black and Blue
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| Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| Released | 23 April 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 7–15 December 1974, 22 January – 9 February 1975, 25 March – 4 April 1975, (overdub work 19–30 October 1975, 3–16 December 1975, 18 January – February 1976) |
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| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock, funk rock, reggae rock | |||
| Length | 41:24 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Rolling Stones | |||
| Producer | The Glimmer Twins | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | A– |
| MusicHound | 3/5 |
| NME | 7/10 |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the band the Rolling Stones, released in 1976.
It was the band's first studio album released with Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor. Wood had played twelve-string acoustic guitar on the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" from the It's Only Rock 'n Roll album and appears on half of the Black and Blue album tracks (mostly backing vocals) with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar on the remaining titles. Keith Richards would later comment "Rehearsing guitar players, that's what that one was about".
The album showed the band incorporating its traditional rock and roll style with heavy influences from reggae and funk music. Though recorded at a transitional moment for the band, the release has received mixed to positive retrospective reviews from publications such as AllMusic, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stating that the album's "being longer on grooves and jams than songs" ended up being "what's good about it".
In December 1974, the Rolling Stones returned to Munich, Germany —where they had recorded their previous album It's Only Rock 'n' Roll—and began the recording of their new album at Musicland Studios, with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (as the Glimmer Twins) producing again. With a view to releasing it in time for the summer 1975 Tour of the Americas, the band broke for the holidays and returned in January in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to continue working—all the while auditioning new guitarists as they recorded. Among the hopefuls were Rory Gallagher, Steve Marriott, Jeff Beck, Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, Peter Frampton, and Ronnie Wood (although only Mandel, Perkins and Wood's guitar work would appear on the finished album). With much work to follow, it was decided to delay the album for the following year and release the Made in the Shade compilation instead. "Cherry Oh Baby" (which was a cover version of Eric Donaldson's 1971 reggae song) would be the only song from the upcoming album sporadically played on the 1975 Tour of the Americas.
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