But I never thought that I’d be the sort of person to write songs about different sorts of real-life experiences until I got sick”.Īnyone expecting that Wilko’s particular brand of R&B to be softened by such heartfelt lyrics is in for a surprise, if anything his guitar style of ‘the chop’ as he calls it, is even more aggressive. Speaking about the first sets of lyrics that he’d written in three decades Wilko says, “It’s tricky when you get to seventy years old, because what am I supposed to be singing? ‘I love you, baby, but you done me wrong?’ Come on! That’s kind of a problem.
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 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.
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