“Whether through personal enmity or advancing decrepitude, pretty much every new Rolling Stones album in the last 30 years has come with the unspoken caveat that it could – maybe, possibly – be their last. At this point, it’s barely a discussion worth having – experience tells us the Stones will keep rolling, while the laws of nature beg to differ; we’ll see who blinks first. Yet ‘Blue & Lonesome’”
“On their bashed-out new album of blues covers, the Stones sound, for the first time in eons, like a band playing together in the same room rather than one that travels on separate jets.”
