Cult songwriter and Godfather of Pub Rock, Mickey Jupp is releasing a new album ‘Older Than Elvis’ through Conquest Music, on 18th September 2026.
Available as a Special Limited Edition Digipak CD, accompanied by a 16-page booklet and on all digital platforms.
The album is preceded by the Single Man Again Blues EP, available now on all digital platforms.
There's a quirky, animated video for Single Man Again Blues, which contains the typical Mickey Jupp sharp lyrics and gallows humour that has him often likened to the legendary wordsmiths, Leiber & Stoller and Chuck Berry at his witty finest.
Older Than Elvis is Mickey Jupp’s sixth album of previously unreleased recordings in The Boot Legacy series and contains 16 tracks that seamlessly sway from country, blues, rock & roll and soul. No doubt it will delight his fans and lovers of quality song writing everywhere.
These incredible collection of recordings that are presented in The Boot Legacy series have been lovingly restored, curated and remastered by Conquest Music. This treasure trove of over 400 recordings span more than 40 years of songwriting while in self-imposed exile at his cottage in the beautiful Eskdale hamlet of Boot.
His lifelong love of song writing has resulted in Mickey recording an incredible body of unreleased work.
… and those songs… they have a charm, humour, simplicity and brilliant wordplay that beg to be appreciated by the masses.
Recorded on basic, obsolete equipment, what he calls his 'demos' contain Mickey's exquisite lead vocals, his tasteful guitar phrasing, deft boogie-woogie piano, multi layered backing vocals and beautiful arrangements to produce a recording that sound as good as if it was made in a state of the art studio. The fact that Jupp plays and sings everything on these recordings is truly remarkable.
Dave Edmunds, who has recorded many of Mickey's songs, has said how it was so difficult in the studio to improve on Mickey's original demos.
Mickey Jupp actually declined the invitation from Dave to join Rockpile before Nick Lowe was recruited.
Mickey Jupp started his musical journey in the early 60’s around Southend-On-Sea and was a hugely influential figure in the UK R&B and Pub Rock scene in the 70’s. His outfit, Legend, recorded albums for Bell Records & Vertigo, including the famous Red Boot album, which inspired future legends such as Paul Weller, Dr Feelgood, Joe Strummer and arguably the whole pub rock movement. A solo career followed, with albums released on big labels such as A&M, Chrysalis & Stiff, but sales success never really materialised, despite working with producers such as Nick Lowe, Mike Vernon, Godley & Crème, Tony Visconti, Gary Brooker, Francis Rossi & the Sutherland Brothers. Critically acclaimed albums followed with little chart impact and Mickey chose to follow his heart to his beloved Lake District.
“Mickey Jupp is the best white singer I’ve ever heard.” Wilko Johnson
Throughout his career, Mickey Jupp has shunned the limelight.
A distrust of authority, an ambivalent attitude to fame, and a struggle with the pressures of recording & public performance, bad luck… all have been factors in Mickey’s lack of commercial success.
Maybe there are precious few gold discs hanging on his wall, but Mickey Jupp has never been short of respect and admiration from his peers & the music press.
“A star who, for some reason known only to God and the fates, has been passed over while lesser men achieve fame” NME
The new album opens with Mickey's own version of Switchboard Susan, his song that Nick Lowe released as a single, littered with inuendo and boogie guitar licks. The bluesy A Fool Forever showcases Jupp's underrated guitar skills. The wonderful Sonia's Song is one of his personal favourites, expressing an aching admiration from afar. The gently ambling Lima, Peru closes out the set, and at the time of compiling the album, was the most recent of Mickey Jupp's demos.
Throughout Older Than Elvis, the wit and magnificence of Mickey’s lyrics are a constant thread.
Equally ever present is the incredible tone and quality of the Mickey Jupp vocals.
With over 80 years on the planet, his voice seems ageless.
The full tracklisting of Older Than Elvis is:
1 Switchboard Susan
2 Funny Old World
3 A Beautiful Blue
4 A Fool Forever
5 Single Man Again Blues
6 Me, Win? Huh!
7 Beam Me Up Scotty
8 Fortunate Few
9 Sonia's Song
10 Older Than Elvis
11 Just A Thing
12 Walking In My Sleep
13 Footloose
14 Every Broken Heart
15 Friday Night
16 Lima, Peru