Charlie Lankester & The Mojo Killers - Song In A Minor Key (2012)

"Given that Lankester was diagnosed with incurable liver cancer on the day he was due to finish mixing this album, it'd take some kind of monumental arsehole to criticize it. It's not an issue: the brass-bolstered band playing like demons and Lankester's lugubrious tales of waking up in the gutter proving utterly magnetic."
Henry Yates, Classic Rock, reviewing 'Song In A Minor Key' in the August 2012 issue.
"Unlike so many debut albums, this one is born out of many years of journeyman activities and what results are some truly magnificent tunes, accompanied by mellow, thought-provoking lyrics, in a blues-rock style that is both engaging and fulfilling… 'Song In A Minor Key', the title track, has shades of BB King about it, although it is altogether more British in appeal, with its crystal clear lyrics and sad horns. All twelve tracks are elegantly composed and performed sublimely. This is an album of great class and disarming honesty."
Iain P W Robertson, reviewing 'Song In A Minor Key' on www.reviewedonline.co.uk
Charlie Lankester And The Mojo Killers' utterly inspired new album, 'Song In A Minor Key', has now been confirmed for physical release on CD on Midmoor music, distributed by Proper Records, on November 26th, following a wave of critical acclaim when first digitally unleashed in September. 'Brixton Road', a "blues-riddled tune effortlessly slithering between sizzling guitar and passionate piano" (music-news.com), taken from the album, will be released as a single a week earlier on November 19th.
'Song In A Minor Key' was written by singer / songwriter / blues rock keyboard player Charlie Lankester after he had spent the previous 20 years tinkling the ivories for the likes of Linda Gail Lewis, Osibisa, Otis Grand, The Boogie Band and the John Warwick All Stars. In 2010 he took time out (in the country) to fulfill a lifelong ambition to write and record his own personal full length album, "written just for me". The day before Charlie was due to mix the final track of 'Song In A Minor Key' (in mid-December 2011), he was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma – incurable cancer of the liver. So much for the bad news; the good news is that, in Charlie's own words "I ain't dead yet"; in fact, he is now playing and singing better than ever. "I was feeling so good about the album that when the doctor told me I had only months to live I just laughed and said 'No mate, that's not gonna happen. I've got an album to release." Fired up by the determination to see through the fruition of his new creation, he immediately finished mixing and sought the very best alternative medical advice available to him - rather than undergo extensive chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Charlie's tumour has now been reduced by fifty per cent, thanks to dedicated diets and supplements for cancer, plus several courses of intravenous doses of high intensity vitamin C.