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Blue & Lonesome is the 23rd studio album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 2 December 2016. Consisting entirely of blues music, it is the band's first album to feature only cover songs .
Kim Wilson (born January 6, 1951) is an American blues singer and harmonica player. [2] He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s, " Tuff Enuff " (which was the group's only Top 40 hit) [ 3 ] and "Wrap It Up."
"Blue and Lonesome" is a blues song recorded in 1959 by Little Walter. It was released as the B-side of the "Mean Ole Frisco" single in 1965 on Checker Records. [1]In 2016 the Rolling Stones released an album of cover songs titled Blue & Lonesome, on which a cover of the song appears.
Blue & Lonesome can refer to: "Blue and Lonesome" (Little Walter song), 1959, later covered by the Rolling Stones "Blue and Lonesome" (Memphis Slim song), 1949;
Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. [1]
The Fabulous Thunderbirds is an American blues band formed in 1974. Singer Kim Wilson is the only constant member through the band's entire history. Their 1986 album Tuff Enuff sold over a million copies, and spawned two minor hit singles: the title track and "Wrap It Up".
Billy Flynn (born August 11, 1956) [1] is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.. In addition to his own work and works mentioned later, he has worked and recorded with Bryan Lee, Little Smokey Smothers, Mark Hummel, Willie Kent, Snooky Pryor, Big Bill Morganfield, John Brim, Jody Williams, Little Arthur Duncan, Deitra Farr, and Billy Boy Arnold.
In 2012, Arnold released Blue and Lonesome featuring Tony McPhee and the Groundhogs. [6] Another tribute to Sonny Boy was the album The Blues Soul of Billy Boy Arnold (Stony Plain - SPCD 1378, 2014). [7] In 2014, he was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the "Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year" category. [8]