Described by Wilko as, “the album I never thought I’d get to write”, it deals with the trials and tribulations that he faced in the last five years, songs such as Marijuana and Take It Easy deal very directly with the terminal diagnosis he was given. Joining Wilko on the album are his long-standing band Norman Watt Roy on bass and Dylan Howe on drums along with producer Dave Eringa who worked with them on the gold-selling album Going Back Home with Roger Daltrey. With customary humour, Wilko said of this late-career resurgence, “Man, there’s nothing like being told you’re dying to make you feel alive”. However, despite the doctors’ worst predictions, he continued to perform with a new lust for life and even made the most successful album of his career Going Back Home with the legendary Roger Daltrey.įollowing that album’s remarkable success, he announced that thanks to a third opinion from a doctor moonlighting as a rock photographer and life-saving surgery, he was now cancer-free. “I’m supposed to be dead!” Wilko was diagnosed in late 2012 with terminal pancreatic cancer. Slated to release on June 15 via Chess Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, the album is available to pre-order now. Wilko's busy gig schedule regularly takes him around the UK, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Finland and Japan.WILKO JOHNSON ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF THE FIRST NEW MATERIAL IN 30 YEARS, BLOW YOUR MIND, OUT JUNE 15įollow Up To The Top 3 Gold Album, Going Back Homeġ2 APRIL 2018 (Toronto, ON) – Canvey Island’s Dr Feelgood guitar legend, Wilko Johnson announces, Blow Your Mind – his first album of new material in 30 years and the sound of a man feeling very much alive.
WILKO JOHNSON SOLID SENDERS ALBUM PLUS
Feelgood live ’75 DVD plus CD is also released, on EMI. Now ‘ Red Hot Rocking Blues’, the first new studio album since 1998 is due, a collection of Wilko-ised covers of classics by people like Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Sonny Boy Williamson, Leadbelly, etc. Completing the 3-piece is former Blockheads drummer Monti, recently replacing the long-serving Salvatore Ramundo.īack In The Night, a ‘best of’ Wilko Johnson retrospective from the past 22 years was released in 2002. The much-revered bassist (also known for his sessions with Frankie Goes To Hollywood and The Clash) has been Wilko’s foil for the past eighteen years, providing a solid foundation for Wilko to scatter his wild guitar tricks over. Teaming up with IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS for their Laughter album led Wilko to regular guest appearances with them over the years, and the association brought a partnership with Norman Watt-Roy. Then under his own name he released further albums, including Ice On The Motorway, Barbed Wire Blues and Going Back Home, and finding a live audience particularly in Europe and Japan for his frantic, exciting gigs. Splitting from the Feelgoods, Wilko formed the Solid Senders and signed to Virgin for an eponymous album. In that era of turgid progressive and fey glam-rock, their high-energy dirty R&B and be-suited appearance was a mini-revolution, bringing rock’n’roll back to the roots and giving inspiration to both the UK and US fledgling punk scenes.
1 chart-topper) and Sneakin’ Suspicion, put Wilko and the Feelgoods firmly on the rock landscape from 1974 to 1977. Feelgood, Wilko Johnson’s manic performances and choppy rhythm/lead style became their distinguishing trademark.įour groundbreaking albums, Down By The Jetty, Malpractice, Stupidity (a UK no. Founder guitarist and songwriter for the 70’s r&b band Dr.
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