Feelgood lineup was Lee Brilleaux, the Big Figure, John B. Feelgood arrived at the time of the Pub Rock movement, an up from the bottom reaction to prog rock and the over-excessive production afforded bands whose members usually had double-barreled names like St. They played a hybrid brand of rhythm and blues with mucho gusto, replete with songs from the likes of the Chuck Berry, Lieber and Stoller (especially Riot in Cell Bock Number Nine), Muddy Waters, Rufus Thomas, and their own Wilko-penned songbooks. This is where Wilko and his band mates grew up. If you would carry on walking east through the mud flats and they miraculously formed a bridge, you would wind up in Belgium. A still functioning oil and gas refinery with storage tanks stood across the creek. Large ocean-going freighters and tanker ships were piloted up and down the channel. During Wilko’s formative years, Canvey Island was all busted up and broken, reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen’s Asbury Park after its demise as a carnival seaside town. Canvey Island was a holiday resort popular in the 1950s amongst London’s East-Enders, mostly working people, the proverbial have-nots. It is on the Thames River estuary, an off the beaten track wasteland then, south east of London. That neighborhood is Canvey Island, Essex. The Original Dubious Characters Look Honed to PerfectionĪround 1971, Wilko Johnson teamed up with some neighborhood pals who were toying with the idea of forming a musical group. They had a hit song in 1965 called Shakin’ All Over. The latter was the guitar player for a British band called Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. Wilko’s major influences musicianship-wise were Bo Diddley and Mick Green. Wilko Johnson is an English electric guitarist and a singer. But I started my Wilko listening journey before that even with the band Dr.
And way before that, I listened to his various Wilko Johnson Band efforts, the records made when he was a member of Ian Dury’s Blockheads, and his own outfit called The Solid Senders, going all the way back to 1977. A few years before that, I listened a lot to his previous album Going Back Home, a joint venture with Roger Daltry, The Who singer. I’m listening to the latest Wilko Johnson record called Blow Your Mind. Bang! – The Unstoppable Force Meets the Immoveable Object
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