Wilko Johnson has teamed up with the Who’s Roger Daltrey for an album to be released in March. Going Back Home will feature 10 Johnson originals, from both his solo career and his days with Dr Feelgood and Solid Senders, plus a cover of Bob Dylan’s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? The album will be prdeceded by a one-off show at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 25 February.

Daltrey and Johnson met when seated next to each other at an awards ceremony in 2010. “It turned out we both loved Johnny Kidd & the Pirates,” Daltrey said. “They’d been a big influence on both our bands. That heavy power-trio sound, backing up a singer; it’s a British institution. No-one does that better than us.”

Johnson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2013, but was well enough to press ahead with the collaboration when the Who finished their world tour. “Roger jumped up and said, ‘Let’s do it,’” Johnson said. “He knew this lovely little studio called Yellow Fish in Uckfield. Unfortunate name for a place, but a great studio.”

The album was recorded in a week last November, with Johnson’s regular touring band of bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Dylan Howe. It will be released on the Chess imprint, which has been revived specially for the occasion.

Since his diagnosis, Johnson has continued to tour, and has dates booked through to 15 March around the world. He told the Guardian last year that the knowledge he had terminal cancer had given him a sense of freedom. "Normally I suffer from depression, and I thought maybe this was a reaction, but then a few nights later I was sitting in my room upstairs," he said. "I've got my room really nice, and it feels great sitting in there with my things around me. And I thought: 'I love being in my room.' Normally, I'd be sitting there thinking: 'My room is very groovy … but I'm really hung up about this.' I'd be worrying away about some rubbish. And now, suddenly, nothing mattered. Nothing mattered. I'm just sitting here in my room, and I love this room, and ain't this nice just sitting here? And I realised: you are alive and you are existing in the moment. You're not worried about the tax return. And it's a bloody good feeling being alive. Sometimes this feeling is almost ecstatic, and I can say that I haven't plunged into despair at all."