Keith Richards confirmed that the Rolling Stones are working on new music.
During an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning , the legendary guitarist stated that he was doing some songwriting alongside Mick Jagger and drummer Steve Jordan , who toured with the band last year following the death of Charlie Watts .
“It will be interesting to discover the dynamics now that Steve is in the band,” said Keith Richards. “It’s kind of a metamorphosis into something else. I was working with Mick last week, and Steve, and we created about eight or nine new tracks. Which is impressive by our standards. Other times, [composing is] like a desert.”
When asked why creating new material can be easier or harder at times, Richards shrugged. “It’s the muse thing,” the rocker explained. “If I could find her address… (laughs).”
The Rolling Stones' last album, Blue & Lonesome , was released in 2015 and consisted of blues covers. You'd have to go back to A Bigger Bang to find the band's last LP of original material. In 2021, the group released a 40th-anniversary edition of their 1981 album, Tattoo You , which included additional parts recently recorded by Watts before his death.
“Charlie only worked on some fills and things like that,” Jagger revealed in 2021, adding that it would be difficult to record new Stones music without the drummer. “Without Charlie being there, it’s going to be very difficult. And we have tracks that obviously have Charlie on them. But if it’s about doing new things, we won’t.”
Jagger previously stated that a new Rolling Stones album was in the works. "It sounds good, what we've already done," the vocalist pointed out in 2020, adding that they had "recorded several tracks" around the same time as the single "Living in a Ghost Town".
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