Classic rock legend icons The Who last unleashed a record some 15 years ago in the mid 00's. Now frontman extraordinaire Roger Daltrey is singing a different tune fortunately for us psychedelic rock fanatics. In collaboration with Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, titled "As Long As I Have You" is a real groovy ditty.
Though the album is indeed a Daltrey solo gig, seven of the tunes also feature his longtime partner n crime Pete Townshend on guitar. So basically honey bears its close to like new music from the Who, but the musique here isn't what you might quickly associate with The Who unless you go way back to their earliest days.
Daltrey’s influence is 60s mod soul with a modern pop/rock twist. The album is a mixture of new compositions and sonics of tunes that have inspired Daltrey over the decades. From Stevie Wonder to
other's alike, the following is what Daltrey had to say about the upcoming record:
"This is a return to the very beginning, to the time before Pete [Townshend] started writing our songs, to a time when we were a teenage band playing soul music to small crowds in church halls. That’s what we were, a soul band. And now, I can sing soul with all the experience you need to sing it. Life puts the soul in. I’ve always sung from the heart but when you’re 19, you haven’t had the life experience with all its emotional trials and traumas that you have by the time you get to my age. You carry all the emotional bruises of life and when you sing these songs, those emotions are in your voice. You feel the pain of a lost love. You feel it and you sing it and that’s soul. For a long time, I’ve wanted to return to the simplicity of these songs, to show people my voice, a voice they won’t have heard before. It felt like the right time. It’s where I am, looking back to that time, looking across all those years but also being here, now, in the soulful moment."
Townshend was also noted saying that "As Long As I Have You" shows Roger at the height of his powers as a vocalist!
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