![]() Something about the aging rock frontman talking about the passage of time and posing introspectively in a peacoat for his album cover makes me expect an album of meditative balladry and standards, but Daltrey’s version of “As Long As I Have You” keeps the lively urgency of the original, with Daltrey using the grit that the decades have given his voice to rip through a song from his youth. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupAs Long As I Have You Roger DaltreyAs Long As I Have You A Polydor Records recording 2018 RHD LLP, under ex. And it does indeed sound like a throwback to the Who’s ’60s R&B origins, considering it’s a rendition of a 1964 soul song sung by Garnet Mimms. Townshend added that As Long As I Have You “shows Roger at the height of his powers as a vocalist.”Īlong with the announcement, Daltrey’s shared the album’s lead single and title track. It’s where I am, looking back to that time, looking across all those years but also being here, now, in the soulful moment. 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. 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 feel it and you sing it and that’s soul. You carry all the emotional bruises of life and when you sing these songs, those emotions are in your voice. 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. And now, I can sing soul with all the experience you need to sing it. This is a return to the very beginning, to the time before Pete started writing our songs, to a time when we were a teenage band playing soul music to small crowds in church halls. Here’s what Daltrey had to say about the album: Daltrey’s positioning it as a callback to their soul roots, and the album is a mixture of new compositions and interpretations of songs that have inspired Daltrey over the years, ranging from logical picks like Stevie Wonder to, somewhat incredibly, Nick Cave’s “Into My Arms.” So it’s almost like new music from the Who, but the music therein isn’t exactly what you might immediately associate with the Who, unless you go way back to their earliest days. Though the album is indeed a Daltrey endeavor, seven of the songs also feature his longtime accomplice Pete Townshend on guitar. Shortly after that, seeds were planted for another collection, a full-fledged solo outing titled As Long As I Have You that’ll see the light of day this summer. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, 2014’s Going Back Home. Along the way, frontman Roger Daltrey did find the opportunity to release a collaboration with Dr. Since then, it’s been what you might expect from aging greats: tours, more (maybe-goodbye) tours, compilations, revisiting the glory days in various forms, but not too much more fresh material. The last time the classic rock legends the Who released an album was way back in 2006, with Endless Wire. Roger Daltrey: As Long As I Have You By Ben Salmon J 11:12am Music Reviews Roger Daltrey The idea behind Roger Daltrey’s new solo albumhis ninth overall and first since. 17.
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