Artist: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: BLACK AND BLUE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1976/ 2009
EAN/UPS: 0602527015613
Media type: CD

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.

All songs by Jagger/Richards except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."Hot Stuff" – 5:20
2."Hand of Fate" – 4:28
3."Cherry Oh Baby" (Eric Donaldson) – 3:53
4."Memory Motel" – 7:07

5."Hey Negrita" (Inspiration by Ronnie Wood) – 4:58
6."Melody" (Inspiration by Billy Preston) – 5:47
7."Fool to Cry" – 5:04
8."Crazy Mama" – 4:34

LINE-UP:

Mick Jagger – lead backing vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar on "Crazy Mama", and electric and acoustic piano on "Memory Motel" and "Fool to Cry"
Keith Richards – guitar, backing and lead vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano on "Memory Motel", and bass guitar on "Crazy Mama"
Charlie Watts – drums and percussion
Ronnie Wood – guitar on "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Crazy Mama", lead guitar on "Hey Negrita", and backing vocals on "Hot Stuff", "Hand of Fate", "Memory Motel", "Hey Negrita", and "Crazy Mama"
Bill Wyman – bass guitar and percussion

Additional personnel:

Ollie Brown – percussion
Nicky Hopkins – piano, organ on "Cherry Oh Baby", ARP String Ensemble on "Fool to Cry"
Harvey Mandel – electric guitar on "Hot Stuff" and "Memory Motel"
Arif Mardin – horn arrangement on "Melody"
Wayne Perkins – acoustic and electric guitar on "Hand of Fate", "Memory Motel", and "Fool to Cry"
Billy Preston – backing vocals; harmony vocal on "Melody"; piano on on "Hot Stuff", "Hand of Fate", "Hey Negrita", "Melody", and "Crazy Mama"; organ on "Hey Negrita" and "Melody"; keyboards; string synthesizer on "Memory Motel"
Ian Stewart – percussion