WILKO JOHNSON DALTREY ALBUM PLUS

“Everyone got on famously,” says Johnson. Johnson also credits producer Dave Eringa for pulling it all together in such a short time. The album was recorded in a week using Johnson’s touring band, BLOCKHEADS bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Dylan Howe, with ex-STYLE COUNCIL and DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS’ Mick Talbot on keyboards. Unfortunate name for a place, but a great studio.” “He knew this lovely little studio called Yellow Fish in Uckfield. “Roger jumped up and said, ‘Let’s do it,’” says Johnson. When The Who finished a sold-out world tour, Daltrey was delighted to discover that mercifully, Johnson was still well enough to fulfil their ambition of making an album together.

The guitarist, riding high after Julien Temple’s Dr Feelgood documentary Oil City Confidential, seized upon the opportunity to make the most of his time left. Then in January 2013 Johnson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he had just months to live. They decided on the spot it would be a great idea to collaborate together on an album but both being busy men, the idea drifted away. “They’d been a big influence on both our bands” Daltrey continues, “That heavy power trio sound, backing up a singer it’s a British institution.

“It turned out we both loved JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES,” says Daltrey, name-checking the turn-of-‘60s creators of ‘Shakin’ All Over’ and ‘Please Don’t Touch’. The album’s roots began in 2010 when Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson found themselves sitting together at an awards ceremony talking about raucous old school British rhythm & blues.

WILKO JOHNSON DALTREY ALBUM PLUS

Recorded in November of last year, Going Back Home is the first release on the newly re-launched Chess Records, featuring 11 tracks, ten of which are Johnson originals from his Dr Feelgood days and solo years, plus a version of BOB DYLAN’s Highway 61 Revisited classic ‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window’. Wilko Johnson, legendary guitarist with Canvey Island rock pioneers DR FEELGOOD, and Roger Daltrey, lead singer of rock giants THE WHO, are set to release the joint album Going Back Home on April 8th, on the world-famous Chess Records label which was resurrected specifically for this record coming out through Universal Music Enterprises (UMe).

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