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.
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. 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.
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."Īnyone 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. 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. 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. 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. '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.
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