The album closer, “Slamming,” is a romping instrumental that sees Johnson’s guitar cavorting with Talbot’s boogie-woogie piano. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2014. The title song Going Back Home sounds like it should come from the deep south, especially with the mouth organ pulsating through the middle of the song. Now it’s time to say goodbye.”īut not just yet. Id not known Wilko Johnson before this album but his playing is superior. The poignant penultimate song, “Say Goodbye,” finds Johnson musing: “Lucky river, rolling on. “Low Down” is meditative blues, seasoned with Weston’s harmonica and organ from former Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot. “Somewhere in the dark there’s a clock ticking out my time,” Johnson sings to Steve Weston’s spicy, soulful harmonica backing. “Marijuana” muses on anxiety as darkness steals in. The lyrics, written in the shadow of death, sometimes take a melancholy turn. Joined by longtime collaborators Norman Watt-Roy on bass and drummer Dylan Howe, he offers up dirty, bluesy rock on tracks like the swaggering love anthem “Blow Your Mind,” the catchy, singalong-style “Tell Me One More Thing” or the strutting “That’s the Way I Love You.” Despite its dance inducing groove, this harmonica laden ode to THC explores the protagonist’s dark thoughts while waiting for death to arrive. Musically, he hasn’t changed much from the raw-boned musician who emerged from England’s Canvey Island in the 1970s with a choppy, relentless guitar style and a thousand-yard glare – a look terrifying enough to earn him a role as a silent executioner on Game of Thrones. This is noticeable most acutely on Marijuana the first single from Blow Your Mind and a work that’s undoubtedly been inspired by Wilko’s battle with pancreatic cancer. Now he’s back with Blow Your Mind, his first album of new material in three decades, and a record Johnson says he thought he’d never make. After surgery to remove a 6.6-pound tumor, Johnson announced in 2014 he was cancer-free. 1. Then a fan who was also a cancer specialist offered to help. He went on a farewell tour and recorded a “final” album with Roger Daltrey of The Who. Feelgood – was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told it was terminal. Wilko Johnson’s new album is a raucous blast of life, overshadowed by mortality.Īt 70, the British guitarist has been invigorated by a reprieve from death.
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