But in these days of music streaming and recommended playlists it is heartening to feel a whole new audience may discover his music through Daltrey’s interpretations. Going Back Home is a collaborative studio album by former Dr. Of course, when Johnson does finally leave us fans may prefer to remember him with the original versions. You would also be impressed how “Sneakin’ Suspicion” swaggers - especially the guitar playing which is still as choppy and precise as ever sonically staring and jerking just like Johnson would do on stage.Īll in, this is a solid epitaph to one of rock’s most eccentric and unsung careers.
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If you hadn’t heard Johnson’s cracked tones on the original “Turned 21” you would surely be taken by the tender, sad melody here. I wanna live the way I like Sleep all the morning Goin get my fun at night Things. Feelgood's bluesy rock an infectious, raucous energy. Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home (Radio Edit) Lyrics. Johnson's jagged playing and menacing stare helped give Dr. When a besuited Daltrey emerges to run through their last-minute collaboration album of Wilko and Feelgood numbers Going Back Home, and add epic rock pomp to their cover of Dylan's carnival wife. Feelgood, is enjoying a bittersweet late-career surge. Those unprejudiced by the first versions, however, may listen with more patience. Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, 'Going Back Home' (Chess) Wilko Johnson, former guitarist of rabble-rousing 1970s British rockers Dr. And, for those still in love with the old Essex-blues feel, it may just be too forceful. It’s certainly a million miles from the stale tobacco and India Pale Ale mood of the originals. Daltrey’s huge voice, you see, does almost sound like he’s from Chicago. His observation goes right to the heart of how you are likely to feel about this album.
Johnson then chipped in, “Don’t matter how hard you try, you can’t sound like you’re from Chicago when you grew up on Canvey Island”. For the two men have long admired each other and Daltrey remarked in a recent interview how they were inspired by the same American R’n’B.
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