![]() In March and April 2014, Wilko, together with Watt-Roy and Howe, appeared on several UK dates as support to the "Frantic Four" (the classic line-up of Status Quo on what was billed as their last ever tour). Johnson played a set on the final night at Wickham Festival in Hampshire on Sunday 4 August 2013. Subsequently, he occasionally performed informal unannounced sets at his local pub, the Railway Hotel in Southend. On 13 July 2013, he performed an unannounced hour-long live set with Norman Watt-Roy and Dylan Howe at the Village Green Festival in his home town of Westcliff-on-Sea. The studio album Red Hot Rocking Blues was released in 2005. Several albums were released on European labels over the next decade. Johnson's second solo album, Ice on the Motorway, was released in 1981, and his EP "Bottle Up and Go!" with Lew Lewis followed in 1983. 'Sav' Ramundo left the band in June 1999 and was replaced by Steve Monti (future Curve and The Jesus and Mary Chain drummer). Around 1984 he then re-formed The Wilko Johnson Band, joined by Blockhead bassist Norman Watt-Roy and Italian born drummer Salvatore Ramundo. In 1980, Johnson joined Ian Dury's band, The Blockheads. The Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival compilation album (March 1978) which reached number 28 in the UK Albums Chart. Feelgood" & "Twenty Yards Behind"), on a hit double album of recordings from the festival. This resulted in the inclusion of two tracks by The Wilko Johnson Band ("Dr. The Wilko Johnson Band played at the 'Front Row Festival', a three-week event at the Hope and Anchor, Islington in late November and early December 1977, featuring many early punk rock acts. In 1977, he was a founding member of Solid Senders, with keyboardist John Potter, bassist Steve Lewins, and drummer Alan Platt. Johnson maintained that he was kicked out of the band, while the remaining band members claimed that he had left voluntarily. Johnson left the band in April 1977, following disagreements over the tracks to be included in the "Sneakin' Suspicion" album. Johnson was known for his distinctive guitar playing style which he achieved by not using a pick but instead relying on fingerstyle in a way that enabled him to play rhythm guitar and riffs or solos at the same time creating a highly percussive guitar sound. ![]() He was a member of the pub rock/rhythm and blues band Dr. Read Full Bio Wilko Johnson (born John Peter Wilkinson in Canvey Island, Essex, on 12 July 1947 died 21 November 2022) was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor. ![]() Pre-order Blow Your Mind with a signed print or as a standard CD and vinyl.Wilko Johnson (born John Peter Wilkinson in Canvey Island, Essex, on 12 July 1947 died 21 November 2022) was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor. 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, & articulate but still rock’n’roll as f_k!” It’s actually quite a cheerful one, too!” 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. “I didn’t really intend to ever use them and, obviously, I didn’t know if I’d ever get back into the studio. 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’. 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 the artist’s earliest work with Dr Feelgood. Anyone expecting that Wilko Johnson’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. ![]()
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