“Going Back Home” is an album for people that appreciate musical synergy. Harry Daltrey was an insurance clerk who was called up to fight in the Second World War, leaving three-month-old Roger and his mother to be evacuated to a farm in Scotland.
Then there is “Keep on Loving You,” where Daltrey and Johnson are at the top of their game, Daltrey displaying silky smooth phrasing and Johnson just going to town on his guitar, and they do all that in under three minutes. Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944, in Hammersmith Hospital, East Acton, London, the eldest of three children of Harry and Irene Daltrey. The Whos Roger Daltrey gatecrashes a wedding and takes to the stage to sing to the happy couple and their guests near Glasgow. Like every great album, it starts strong and hard with the title track, “Going Back Home” which features a healthy dose of Steve Watson’s harmonica and has Daltrey sounding like he has enough gravel in his throat to pave a parking lot. The Who star Roger Daltrey crashes wedding. It’s hard to single out one track as a standout, a testament to the fact that Johnson and Daltrey hail from an era where an album was not just a few singles with some filler. The rock veteran Roger Daltrey has lamented the absence of musical movements. The songs sound raw and deliciously sloppy without an ounce of slick production, electronic wizardry and should be certified 100% organic.
The entire album, save the ballad “Turned 21,” is a raucous ride through Wilko’s material and a single Bob Dylan cover. The timing could not have been better for Daltrey, because his voice was in great form strengthened from the months of touring. “Going Back Home” was recorded in a week, back in November of 2013, right after Daltrey finished his touring obligations with The Who. The pair had similar music interests and agreed to work together when time permitted. The story goes that Daltrey and Johnson happened to meet and strike up a friendship while seated next to each other at an awards ceremony in 2010. Feelgood fame, battles pancreatic cancer. Such is the case with the Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey album, “Going Back Home.” It is a bittersweet collaboration, recorded while Johnson, the legendary guitarist of Dr. tracks 6-11 and 17-18 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire tracks 12-16. Occasionally an album magically appears on the horizon, and it turns out to be an artistic masterpiece.
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