The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and Mick Jagger spoke with Anthony Mason of CBS This Morning about their new record Blue & Lonesome as well as a host of other topics in a particularly revealing interview with the two cornerstones of rock’s biggest group.  

“The band’s rockin’, man,” Richards says of the current state of the Stones. The duo spoke on their recent performance at Desert Trip, with Jagger joking he was concerned about a concert with “too many white people, old white English people.” Richards reveled in Bob Dylan essentially opening for the band, calling it “almost ludicrous.” The next week, of course, Dylan would be bejeweled with the Nobel Prize. “I want mine for chemistry,” Richards quipped. 

Eventually, the conversation lands on their new album, composed of traditional blues covers, ultimately tracing the blues sound back to their roots. “This has always been the basic roots of the band,” Richards said before recounting his early days with Jagger, bonding over Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records. 

Returning to the present day, Jagger says things like making a blues record or playing in Havana, Cuba for the first time “reinvigorates your interest” in the music. “On stage sometimes, I feel immortal,” Richards notes. “It is a great feeling, I know I’m blessed. I’ll come back as a frog.” 

Watch the piece below.