Keith Richards Has an Update on The Rolling Stones’ New Record

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts in 2016.
The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts in 2016. Photo by MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock (7439371r)

The Rolling Stones have been working on their new studio album for some time now, but we didn’t hear any details about the project in a while. Now, the band’s guitarist Keith Richards decided to give an update about the upcoming record of the legendary rockers in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

According to Richards, the band will enter the studio a week before their U.S. arena tour kicks off on April 20th, and are hoping to get some work done.

“I’m preparing more than anything else, putting material together,” Richards told the magazine.

“Sometimes it’s not as much writing as listening to what’s been written and figuring it out, and honing and all kinds of stuff,” he added. “It’s very boring. It’s like a carpentry shop.”

The Rolling Stones’ last album, Blue & Lonesome, came in 2017 but the release was a cover album and didn’t contain original songs. The band’s last record with originals was 2005’s A Bigger Bang.

Elsewhere in the interview, Keith Richards also discussed the band’s willingness to tour even after doing it for the past 55+ years, being asked whether he or his band members ever get tired of it.

“Not at all,” Richards explained. “I mean, hey, how bad can it be? You get up there and do what you love to do, and fortunately so do millions of others. It’s not something to turn your nose up at, you know. And it’s what I do. It’s the way the band feels.”