Blue & Lonesome
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 1 December 2016
- Tracks on this edition
- 12
- Running time
- 42:36
The cover
Studio Fury turned the Stones’ tongue and lips logo blue for Blue & Lonesome. The studio’s project account links the new colour treatment to a mark first used on Sticky Fingers. John Pasche designed the original tongue artwork in 1970, as the V&A records.
Album identity/packaging: Studio Fury; Original tongue artwork: John Pasche
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Alexis Petridis’s Guardian review praises the power of Mick Jagger’s voice and harmonica on Blue & Lonesome.
Kitty Empire’s Observer review delights in “Commit a Crime” and the enjoyment she hears in the performances.
Stuart Berman’s Pitchfork review welcomes the sound of the Stones playing together, with Jagger’s harmonica driving their guitar interplay. He hears flashes of menace in “Commit a Crime” and “Hate to See You Go”, but thinks the album generally favours faithful homage over the irreverence of their strongest blues covers.
Tracklist
XE edition · 1 December 2016
Select a song for details
- A1Just Your Fool2:16
- A2Commit a Crime3:38
- A3Blue and Lonesome3:07
- B1All of Your Love4:46
- B2I Gotta Go3:26
- B3Everybody Knows About My Good Thing4:30
- 2-C1Ride ’Em On Down2:48
- 2-C2Hate to See You Go3:20
- 2-C3Hoo Doo Blues2:36
- 2-D1Little Rain3:32
- 2-D2Just Like I Treat You3:24
- 2-D3I Can’t Quit You Baby5:13
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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