320 kbps | 89 MB | LINKS
Third album from the Brighton bluesmeisters that refuse to compromise. Americana?
Blues-rock extrapolation? Uh – no. London Town legends? Maybe.
Slide guitar, acoustic bass and on-the-money drums? Yup.
320 kbps | 89 MB | LINKS
Third album from the Brighton bluesmeisters that refuse to compromise. Americana?
Blues-rock extrapolation? Uh – no. London Town legends? Maybe.
Slide guitar, acoustic bass and on-the-money drums? Yup.
320 kbps | 205 MB | LINKS
Tracklist:
01 Leadbelly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night (3:01)
02 Sammy Price – Jelly Roll Junior Blues (3:02)
03 Faces – Jerusalem (1:51)
04 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – Come On In My Kitchen – Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:13)
05 Blind Willie McTell – The Razor Ball (2:51)
06 Odetta – Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole) (2:49)
07 Mississippi Fred Mcdowell – Freight Train Blues (3:03)
08 Tim Hardin – I Cant Slow Down (3:25)
09 Felix Dukes – Motherless Children (2:49)
10 Kelly Joe Phelps – Goodnight Irene (5:38)
11 James Shorty – I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (3:43)
12 Odetta – Midnight Special (2:34)
13 Alvin Youngblood Hart – Illinois Blues (4:19)
14 60,000,000 Buffalo – American Money Blues (5:36)
15 Dr. John – Dear Old Southland (2:41)
16 Thorstein Bergman – How Long Blues (Demo 1965) (2:34)
17 Tim Buckley – Hong Kong Bar (6:57)
18 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – I Got My Mojo Working (3:32)
19 Maria Muldaur – Honey Babe Blues (3:07)
20 Charlie Norman – Boogie Woogie On St. Louis Blues (3:00)
21 Ray Charles – Mr. Charles Blues (2:47)
22 Mose Allison – Rollin’ Stone (2:59)
23 Geoff Muldaur – Tennessee Blues (3:37)
24 Beausoleil – Les Blues De Chaleur (Hot Blues) (3:19)
25 Champion Jack Dupree – Strollin’ (3:06)
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‘Blow Your Mind’ is Wilko’s first album of new material in 30 years, and is the sound of a man feeling very much alive.
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. Describing the record 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.
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. 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.”
Anyone 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. The introspection of some of the tracks on the album is more than balanced out by the good time upbeat party feel of the title track, Beauty and I Love The Way You Do that have the urgency of Wilko’s earliest work with Dr Feelgood.
On going back into the studio after everything that he’d been through, Wilko has this to say about the 12 tracks that make up ‘Blow Your Mind,’ “I didn’t really intend to ever use them and, obviously, I didn’t know if I’d ever get back into the studio. One of those songs, that’s a reflection of that time, about sitting around the house at night knowing that death’s coming; we’ve recorded it, and it’ll be on the album. It’s actually quite a cheerful one, too!”
Producer Dave Eringa puts it succinctly, “I never expected to be making another Wilko Johnson album after ‘Going Back Home’ but what a pleasure & a privilege it was to be able to capture Wilko’s first new songs for 30 years! He is one of music’s true gentleman – literate, intelligent, and articulate but still rock’n’roll as f***!”