While he is living life this fully, and with such bristling bravado, long may he feel mortified. There is no attempt to innovate on Going Back Home, nor is it filled with ruminations on life and death instead this album is a celebration of Johnson’s work and opens and closes with new versions of Feelgoods classics. After cracking through the Who's I Can't Explain, he holds his microphone to Wilko's stomach as if the disease itself might sing a verse, while Johnson mock-dies. Dad-dancing, forgetting lyrics and muddling his lyric sheets like a doddery rock champion, Daltrey sweeps all sense of finality, tribute or po-faced reverence from the evening and lifts it towards a tearless celebration, a lock-in at the last chance saloon. 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-stealing ditty Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window, the party cranks up. The East End Trotterisms of Feelgood's The More I Give – a signpost to Johnson's later stint in Ian Dury's Blockheads – finds him staring down the crowd with all the menace of his Game of Thrones executioner. The Who frontman and the former Dr Feelgood guitar hero team up for a. But the 66-year-old Johnson has never done things quite like anyone else. Découvrez le CD Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltrey Going back home, CRCDE2014 - UK & Europe, 2014, Chess sur CDandLP - Ref:2405576376. These are 12-bar rock'n'roll, reggae and rhythm-and-blues songs of rampant teenage exploits, adventurous seafaring and cruel women such as Roxette, vividly alive indeed. Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home review blistering R&B thats full of joie de vivre 4 out of 5 stars. The simple fact of the matter is Wilko Johnson isnt supposed to be with us at this point let alone playing slam-banging, foot-stomping rock ‘n’ roll with a new album that debuted at the number three spot on the U.K. Besides a snapped "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone", during Wilko's wired initial set with his own band, there's no lingering on the inevitable tonight.
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