New Podcast! Wilko Johnson Talks To…
We are pleased to announce that Wilko has been spending his time in self-isolation very productively – and we can now unveil the first episode of the new podcast series ‘Wilko Johnson Talks To…’ !
First guest? None other than WJ’s own long-time rock ‘n’ roll partner in crime, Norman Watt-Roy.
With thanks to Jim Drury and Simon Johnson for making this happen.
Dig in here:
December 11, 2020 @ 10:51 pm
Hello Wilko,
I was noodling on the internet when I came across your video explaining your guitar technique and being interviewed at the100 club. The more I looked the more I felt like I had met you somewhere in my past. Then it struck me like a bolt of lightning that you were the gravity defying, wild eyed, mop haired, amazing guitar player I had seen in a Muswell Hill pub when I was in my early twenties probably around 1973 or 74. I was a country lad from a small village in Staffordshire when I was sent to London on a training course. A couple of the other guys said they had seen this amazing band playing in a local pub, so as an aspiring Pete Townsend myself I went along with them and was absolutely blown away with your and the bands energy and style.
I am now 68 and living in Canada and after a lifetime I never forgot that night in Muswell Hill. I am home suffering from some health challenges of my own the details of which I won’t bore you with, but after doing some research on you and hearing of your amazing battle with cancer and the truly fortunate outcome, I am inspired and re-energized to not only keep well but dust off my old Tele and bang off a few chords. I was fascinated by your explanation of your style, it struck me that it is similar to the style of claw hammer banjo flailing as practiced by the amazing blue grass banjo players of the southern US, only in your case it is claw sledge hammer!!
Anyway I am beginning to ramble so in closing I would say that I am absolutely delighted that you recovered and went on to even better things and also delighted that yet again in my life, albeit many years apart, you have influenced my life in an amazingly positive way. Noticing that you and Roger Daltry have made an album together is a delight because The Who are also one of my all time favourites, I am going on Amazon right now to find it as an early Christmas present to myself!!! Sir, you are the best, thank you for the memories.
With great respect
Bob Jamieson
Toronto Dec 2020
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