Early Stones records contained some bare-bones Blues elements and the band considers Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and other artists in the genre essential to their development as a band. Keith Richard's recent comments (story) about the band having cranked out a prodigious amount of material in just a few recording sessions has triggered speculation that the band may have been recording familiar songs instead of new originals. If that's the case, there's a good possibility the next, and possibly final album, will find the band back where it all began.
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