Roger Daltrey Announces New Solo Album 'As Long As I Have You', Shares Title Track
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Written by Jon Stickler
Roger Daltrey has announced his ninth solo record.
'As Long As I Have You' is out on June 1 and will feature a mixture of self-penned tracks and covers produced by Dave Eringa, best known for his work with the Manic Street Preachers and on Daltrey and Wilko Johnson’s 2014 joint LP, 'Going Back Home'.
The record also features the Who bandmate Pete Townshend on seven tracks as well as guest contributions from Mick Talbot, once of the Style Council, plus Sean Genockey, who has worked with Suede, Shame and the Proclaimers, on lead guitar. Speaking about the album, Daltrey said:
"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."
Check out the album's cover art above and head below for the title cut, a cover of soul and R&B singer Garnett Mimms' track, plus the tracklist.
'As Long As I Have You':
1. As Long As I Have You
2. How Far
3. Where Is A Man To Go?
4. Get On Out Of The Rain
5. I’ve Got Your Love
6. Into My Arms
7. You Haven’t Done Nothing
8. Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
9. Certified Rose
10. The Love You Save
11. Always Heading Home
Daltrey performs at the Royal Albert Hall in London next week as part of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concert series.
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