It's tempting to call "Black and Blue" the Rolling Stones' first bad album. Yet that judgment collapses too much complexity into a single word. Bad, after all, implies failure, and "Black and Blue" ...

Featuring audition jams with Jeff Beck and Harvey Mandel, as well as rare tracks and concert recordings, a new expanded reissue of the band's 1976 album gives us a 360 look at a crucial turning point ...