The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has recently confirmed that he, Mick Jagger, and drummer Steve Jordan–who toured with the band following Charlie Watts’ death– have been doing some songwriting.
“It’ll be interesting to find out the dynamics now that Steve’s in the band,” Richards explained. “It’s sort of metamorphosing into something else. I was working with Mick last week, and Steve, and we came up with some, eight or nine new pieces of material. Which is overwhelming by our standards. Other times, [songwriting is] like a desert.”
A Bigger Bang, the Stones’ 2005 release, is the band’s most recent collection of original material. The rockers released an album of blues cover songs, Blue & Lonesome, in 2015 and a 40th-anniversary edition of their 1981 album Tattoo You.
Jagger previously acknowledged an upcoming album in progress. “It sounds good, what we’ve already done,” the frontman said in 2020, adding that they had already “recorded a bunch of tracks.”
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