Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey: It's meat-and-potatoes British R&B, done with love and joie de vivre
In diesen Tagen erscheint auf dem legendären Chess-Label Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home (theguardian review hier!)
Das ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht eine außerordentlich gute Nachricht: On 25 January 2013, Wilko Johnson gave an interview on the BBC. He discussed his terminal cancer, and said that doctors have told him he has nine or ten months to live. He talked about his "farewell tour" of the UK set for March, and how his diagnosis has made him feel "vividly alive".
It really is a quite genuine tragedy that something as horribly sad as Johnson’s diagnosis needed to happen for him to garner some wider recognition; in the pantheon of British guitar players, he is genuinely unique. All the way back to his Dr. Feelgood days, he’s taken the idea of treating his instrument as his ‘weapon of choice’ quite seriously; he’s prowled countless stages less playing his Telecaster than attacking it, often stabbing it in the direction of the audience with the air of a man handling an AK-47.
That last album has, happily, come to fruition, with a pretty heavyweight acquaintance handling vocal duties: Roger Daltrey ... (DROWNED IN SOUND), der hier eine so noch nie gehörte Stimme hören lässt: Man hört, dass es Daltrey ist, aber die Stimme ist hat mehr Volumen, ist abgründiger als bei allen Who- und Soloaufnahmen. Anklänge an Chris Farlowe und ausdrucksvoller als Jagger, - faszinierend, wie sich eine Stimme noch so verändern kann!
Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey played live at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 25 February 2014.
This highly anticipated and very special one-off show featured impressive support from The Standard Lamps, and a short set from Wilko and his regular band (Norman Watt-Roy and Dylan Howe), the latter of which included blistering versions of Barbed Wire Blues and (personal favourite) Doctor Dupree. For the 'main event' the band was then joined by Roger Daltrey, Mick Talbot (Merton Parkas, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Style Council etc) on keyboards and the great Steve 'West' Weston on blues harmonica. Opening with title track (and Dr Feelgood classic) Going Back Home, Roger, Wilko & co stormed through pretty much all of the album, including a cover of Bob Dylan's Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window and even throwing in fabulous version of The Who's I Can't Explain for good measure! All in all, a pretty special night:
Mehr in besserer Qualität hier: Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - London 2014 - Full Concert
Paul Weller has said of Johnson: "Wilko may not be as famous as some other guitarists, but he's right up there. And there are a lot of people who'll say the same. I can hear Wilko in lots of places. It's some legacy." Da muss ich unbedingt zustimmen; mein Lieblingslied von Wilko Johnson ist immer noch: "First Thing in the Morning" from The Solid Sender's (UK) 1978 Virgin debut album Wilko Johnson's Solid Senders (nur hören, das doofe Fan-Video dazu macht den Song kaputt!!), - auch wenn Blazing Fountains typischer für sein eigenartiges Gitarrenspiel ist!
Dass einer beschließt, dem Krebs nicht mit den angesagten Therapien zu begegnen, sondern stattdessen Musik zu machen bis zum absehbaren Ende, finde ich faszinierend. Love and joie de vivre sind in den wohl letzten Aufnahmen spürbar - und so kann man dann auch gehen ....
Ähnlich war das bei Jon Lord ... und ich wünschte, ich hätte auch so eine schöne Aussicht, wenn ich mal gehen muss.
+ Wilko Johnson discusses his cancer
+ Wilko Johnson Demonstrates His Guitar Technique
+ Rodger Daltrey New Album with Wilko Johnson interview 2014
+ historisches Fundstück: Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Live with Wilko Johnson
Das ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht eine außerordentlich gute Nachricht: On 25 January 2013, Wilko Johnson gave an interview on the BBC. He discussed his terminal cancer, and said that doctors have told him he has nine or ten months to live. He talked about his "farewell tour" of the UK set for March, and how his diagnosis has made him feel "vividly alive".
It really is a quite genuine tragedy that something as horribly sad as Johnson’s diagnosis needed to happen for him to garner some wider recognition; in the pantheon of British guitar players, he is genuinely unique. All the way back to his Dr. Feelgood days, he’s taken the idea of treating his instrument as his ‘weapon of choice’ quite seriously; he’s prowled countless stages less playing his Telecaster than attacking it, often stabbing it in the direction of the audience with the air of a man handling an AK-47.
That last album has, happily, come to fruition, with a pretty heavyweight acquaintance handling vocal duties: Roger Daltrey ... (DROWNED IN SOUND), der hier eine so noch nie gehörte Stimme hören lässt: Man hört, dass es Daltrey ist, aber die Stimme ist hat mehr Volumen, ist abgründiger als bei allen Who- und Soloaufnahmen. Anklänge an Chris Farlowe und ausdrucksvoller als Jagger, - faszinierend, wie sich eine Stimme noch so verändern kann!
Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey played live at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 25 February 2014.
This highly anticipated and very special one-off show featured impressive support from The Standard Lamps, and a short set from Wilko and his regular band (Norman Watt-Roy and Dylan Howe), the latter of which included blistering versions of Barbed Wire Blues and (personal favourite) Doctor Dupree. For the 'main event' the band was then joined by Roger Daltrey, Mick Talbot (Merton Parkas, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Style Council etc) on keyboards and the great Steve 'West' Weston on blues harmonica. Opening with title track (and Dr Feelgood classic) Going Back Home, Roger, Wilko & co stormed through pretty much all of the album, including a cover of Bob Dylan's Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window and even throwing in fabulous version of The Who's I Can't Explain for good measure! All in all, a pretty special night:
Mehr in besserer Qualität hier: Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - London 2014 - Full Concert
Paul Weller has said of Johnson: "Wilko may not be as famous as some other guitarists, but he's right up there. And there are a lot of people who'll say the same. I can hear Wilko in lots of places. It's some legacy." Da muss ich unbedingt zustimmen; mein Lieblingslied von Wilko Johnson ist immer noch: "First Thing in the Morning" from The Solid Sender's (UK) 1978 Virgin debut album Wilko Johnson's Solid Senders (nur hören, das doofe Fan-Video dazu macht den Song kaputt!!), - auch wenn Blazing Fountains typischer für sein eigenartiges Gitarrenspiel ist!
Dass einer beschließt, dem Krebs nicht mit den angesagten Therapien zu begegnen, sondern stattdessen Musik zu machen bis zum absehbaren Ende, finde ich faszinierend. Love and joie de vivre sind in den wohl letzten Aufnahmen spürbar - und so kann man dann auch gehen ....
Ähnlich war das bei Jon Lord ... und ich wünschte, ich hätte auch so eine schöne Aussicht, wenn ich mal gehen muss.
+ Wilko Johnson discusses his cancer
+ Wilko Johnson Demonstrates His Guitar Technique
+ Rodger Daltrey New Album with Wilko Johnson interview 2014
+ historisches Fundstück: Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Live with Wilko Johnson
gebattmer - 2014/03/23 15:41
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