Black and Blue is an album by 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 12-string acoustic guitar on the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" of the 1974 Rolling Stones album It's Only Rock 'n' Roll 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. History In December 1974 The Rolling Stones returned to Munich, Germany—the recording site of their Read more on Last.fm.
This can only lightly be defined as a proper studio album. It’s really more of a professionally recorded jam session that goes on for fifty minutes. The tracks do end and begin but the melodies wax and wane, the riffs are noodles and the lyrics are offhand chants. Somehow, its a wonderful listen. It’s like sitting in a garage with The Stones and listening to a jam. I recommend.