Keith Richards Says the Rolling Stones Are Working on New Songs

Keith Richards confirmed that the Rolling Stones are engaged on some new tunes.

Throughout an look on CBS Sunday Morning, the legendary guitarist famous he’d been doing a little songwriting alongside Mick Jagger and drummer Steve Jordan, who toured with the band final 12 months following the dying of Charlie Watts.

“It’ll be attention-grabbing to seek out out the dynamics now that Steve’s within the band,” Richards admitted. “It’s kind of metamorphosing into one thing else. I used to be working with Mick final week, and Steve, and we got here up with some, eight or 9 new items of fabric. Which is overwhelming by our requirements. Different instances, [songwriting is] like a desert.”

Requested why developing with new materials may be simpler or more durable at instances, Richards shrugged. “It’s the muse factor,” the rocker defined. “If I may discover her deal with (laughing).”

The Stones’ final album, Blue & Lonesome, got here out in 2015 and was made up of blues cowl songs. It’s important to go all the best way again to 2005’s A Larger Bang to seek out the band’s final LP of unique materials. In 2021, the group launched a fortieth anniversary version of their 1981 album Tattoo You, which included extra components recorded lately by Watts previous to his dying.

“Charlie did some work on only a few fills and stuff like that,” Jagger revealed in 2021, including that it’d be robust to file new Stones songs with out the drummer. “With out Charlie being there, it may be very troublesome. And we have got tracks, which clearly have Charlie on them. But when we do new issues, we gained’t.”

Jagger beforehand acknowledged a brand new Stones album was within the works. “It sounds good, what we’ve already carried out,” the frontman famous in 2020, including that they’d “recorded a bunch of tracks” across the similar time as stand-alone single “Dwelling in a Ghost City.”

Watch Keith Richards’ Interview on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’