If you haven’t already got your tickets, go to www.thewho. Roger’s special guest on all twelve shows will be Leslie Mendelson. On drums, Ben Townshend, son of Simon T, who has played on several of Simon’s albums and albums by The Cornerstones.Īnd who else but. Steve is the harp player of choice for Mud Morganfield (Muddy Water’s son) when Morganfield plays shows in the UK. Steve ‘West’ Weston – one of Britain’s top blues harp players – you’ll know him from the Going Back Home album which Roger made with Wilko Johnson. Likewise, Billy Nicholls, a major part of The Who family for so many years. Jody Linscott, a regular on Who shows and solo shows for both Roger and Pete. John Hogg on bass, from Indie band Moke, known, appropriately enough, for their 1990s single, ‘My Degeneration’. Geraint Watkins, Welshman and king of the keyboards, has played for Dave Edmunds, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler and Slim Chance. Feelgood, is enjoying a bittersweet late-career. Simon Townshend, brother of Pete, you will, of course, know very well from countless Who shows.ĭoug Boyle on guitar Doug played guitar for several years with Robert Plant and has played for Nigel Kennedy and in recent years has been a member of Caravan. Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, 'Going Back Home' (Chess) Wilko Johnson, former guitarist of rabble-rousing 1970s British rockers Dr. Having spent years translating the neurotic rage and brandified existential doubt of Pete Townshend, Daltrey is expert in finding the emotion and power in someone else’s words. This is the perfect soundtrack to sitting in the sun, on the coast preferably Southend and getting drunk!Ĭheck Out! the Vid eo for 'I Keep it to Myself' Below.With just nine days until the first night of Roger’s UK tour, we’re pleased to announce the members of his band for these twelve shows. On Tuesday 25th February 2014, Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey came together for a one off concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London, to promote their forthcoming album 'Going Back Home'. Not earth shattering but doesn't need to be, it's just all fun and having a good time. Instead of whiling away his final days, Johnson set out on a final tour and, finding himself still standing at the end of it, received an invitation from Who singer Roger Daltrey to go into the studio and record an album of whatever songs the guitarist wanted. The band blaze through this little set and really let things rip with the finishing track 'All through the City' a Dr. Feelgood classic. A great little album. 'Turned 21' is a lovely little ballad which shows just what a great songwriter Wilko Johnson is. Roger Daltreys 2021 Who Was I tour dates are: November 7, Birmingham Symphony Hall November 9, Manchester O2 Apollo November 11, Nottingham RCH November 15, London The Palladium November. The cover of Bob Dylan's "Can you please crawl out your window" is great and won't fail to lift your mood. You have Roger Daltrey doing what he does best backed by a tight band running through some great British Rythem and Blues. It pretty much does what it says on the tin. Most if not all the track here have been in his live set over the last year or so. 'Going back Home' was recorded in just under a week with Roger, Wilko and the backing band he has been using recently. He managed to get none other then Roger Daltrey into the studio and run through a selected number of songs by Wilko and Dr. Feelgood (and a Bob Dylan cover). Choosing to tour and play basically till he drops.ĭuring his seemingly endless string of gigs, he even said to a crowd during a gig recently if he wasn't dead by the end of the year it's going to start getting embarrassing!. His heroic stance against his condition is to be admired by everyone. The two bonded over a shared love of Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, the early British rock and rollers whose guitarist. Feelgood songs get new treatments here, while Johnson. When The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey met former Dr Feelgood and Blockheads guitar hero Wilko Johnson at an awards ceremony in 2010, they hit it off immediately. Old pal Roger Daltrey invited him into the studio, and for a week Johnson and the Who singer bashed out whatever Johnson had in mind. Feelgood’s lead guitarist, Wilko Johnson, went out on a final tour and survived it. Two members of British Rock Royalty go at it one more time!Ī cynic would be forgiven for thinking WIlko Johnson's boost in popularity was due to his being diagnosed with cancer, which says more about the general public then anything else!. But his real boost.well actually reminder of what a gem Wilko is to British music history actually started with the fantastic 'Oil city Confidential' documentary, not to mention his appearance on 'Game of Thrones'. Upon learning he had 10 months to live in 2013, Dr.
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