I Keep It To Myself The Best Of

Description

Wilko Johnson is known to most as the one-time Dr Feelgood guitarist, who cultivated a raucous, R&B-indebted style that helped presage punk in the mid-70s, before going on to play with Ian Dury And The Blockheads and leading his own Wilko Johnson Band throughout the 80s. His insatiable thirst for gut-bucket R&B, shot through with his own electrifying, bone-rattling stylings, has bequeathed a litter of compelling recordings.

Continuing his association with the reactivated Chess imprint, the label that issued so many of the tunes that inspired him in his youth, I Keep It To Myself The Best Of Wilko Johnson draws together 25 tracks recorded between 2008 and 2012 by the legendary guitarist and songwriter with backing largely provided by Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Dylan Howe (drums), the same rhythm section that performed on Wilkos enormously successful Going Back Home album with Roger Daltrey.

While the Daltry songs among them Turned 21 and Ice On The Motorway bring Wilkos musical story up to date, the likes of Roxette and She Does It Right are newly recorded versions of Wilko-penned Dr Feelgood classics on which the guitarist gives his past a few fresh new licks.