Dr. Feelgood “Malpractice” 1975. Bluesy pub-rock with lots of harmonica, today’s spin for Dr. Feelgood’s guitarist and songwriter Wilko Johnson who died last week on November 21st. Malpractice was their second LP; it went to #17 in the UK. This style of gritty 70’s rock isn’t my usual fare so this is actually my first-ever listen to the album though it’s probably been in our collection for years. There’s a few covers including the Delta blues standard “Rolling and Tumbling” first recorded by Hambone Willien Newbern and later, more famously, recorded by both Muddy Waters and Cream; “Watch Your Step” which was a hit for Bobby Parker in ’61; and “Riot in Cell Block #9” written by Leiber and Stoller and recorded first by The Robins in ’54 and later by such artists as The Grateful Dead, Wanda Jackson, Johnny Cash and Flat Duo Jets. Most of the originals were mostly all or in part written by Wilko Johnson like the single “Back in the Night” (it failed to chart), “Because You’re Mine” (co-written by Nick Lowe and Sparks) and “You Shouldn’t Call the Doctor (If You Can’t Afford the Bills).”