Wilko Johnson Releases 2CD Best Of Collection

“I Keep It To Myself – The Best Of Wilko Johnson” draws together 25 tracks recorded between 2008 and 2012 by the guitarist and songwriter with backing largely provided by Blockheads Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Dylan Howe (drums), the same rhythm section that performed on Wilko’s successful Going Back Home album with Roger Daltrey.

Including re-workings of Wilko penned Dr Feelgood favourites ‘She Does It Right’, ‘Twenty Yards Behind’, ‘Sneaking Suspicion’ and ‘Roxette’, alongside further numbers such as ‘Turned 21’, ‘Some Kind Of Hero’, ‘Out In The Traffic’, Barbed Wire Blues’, ‘Down By The Waterside’ and ‘I Really Love Your Rock ‘n’ Roll’ – I Keep It To Myself – The Best Of Wilko Johnson is a collection of high octane rhythm & blues with that unmistakable Wilko Johnson Fender stamped all over it.

Wilko keeps quiet about all this but in his music you can hear so many echoes – Chicago Blues, Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley. But also Bob Dylan, electric, in ‘66, The Drifters, Bob Marley, Television and the Brill Building. And he sings of many things; of water, of lust, of despair. He sings about fortune tellers and drug dealers. He sings of lovers, crazy lovers, wonderful lovers, and love gone bad.

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Track listing:

CD1

1.        Roxette

2.        She Does it Right

3.        I Keep it to Myself

4.        Ice on the Motorway

5.        Back in the Night

6.        Turned 21

7.        Paradise

8.        Barbed Wire Blues

9.        Dr Dupree

10.      Sneaking Suspicion

11.      Living in the Heart of Love

12.      Some Kind of Hero

CD2

1.        Twenty Yards Behind

2.        Out In The Traffic

3.        Cairo Blues

4.        The Hook

5.        Keep On Loving You

6.        All Right

7.        When I’m Gone

8.        Come Back and Love Me

9.        She’s Good Like That

10.      The Beautiful Madrilena

11.      Underneath Orion

12.      Down By The Waterside

13.      I Really Love Your Rock ‘n’ Roll

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