Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the band the Rolling Stones, released in 1976.<\/p>\n
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)” 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.”<\/p>\n
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 time 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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 12-string acoustic guitar on the track “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[24,1],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-rolling-stones","tag-classic-rock","tag-international-rock"],"yoast_head":"\n