Fool is alweer het twintigste album van legende Joe Jackson en de opvolger van het in 2015 verschenen Fast Forward. Met Fool ging voor Joe Jackson een langgekoesterde wens in vervulling: een tournee afronden en direct daarna met de band de studio in om een album op te nemen. En aldus geschiedde, op 29 juli deed hij zijn laatste show in het Eqyptian Theater in Boise, Idaho en betrok een dag later met zijn band de Tonic Room Studios in Boise. "When it looked like I'd be recording in late July and mixing around my birthday, in August, it struck me that the only other occasion that had happened was while making my first album. It still took a while for it to sink in: this would be 40 years on€¦ The road to this album is littered with the wrecks of songs and half-songs that didn't make the grade. There are eight survivors, which I think is enough. How significant the resurgence of vinyl is, I'm not sure, but I did think of this as an album, with two complementary sides of about 20 minutes each€¦ I never have an overall theme in mind when I start trying to write songs for an album, but sometimes one will develop. In this case it's Comedy and Tragedy, and the way they're intertwined in all our lives. The songs are about fear and anger and alienation and loss, but also about the things that still make life worth living: friendship, laughter, and music, or art, itself. I couldn't have done this in 1979. I just hadn't lived enough.", Fool is geproduceerd door Joe Jackson en Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Glen Hansard) en opgenomen met de band waarmee Jackson sinds de release van Fast Forward optreedt, gitarist Teddy Kumpel, drummer Doug Yowell en bassist Graham Maby waarmee Jackson al decennialang samenspeelt. De Fast Forward Tour ging een geheel eigen leven leiden en behelste uiteindelijk meer dan 103 shows. Volgend jaar viert Joe Jackson zijn veertigjarig jubileum als artiest en omlijst dat met de Four Decade wereldtournee waarmee hij ook vijf keer Nederland aandoet. Over de nieuwe wereldtournee zegt hij: "So, here comes a big tour. We want to celebrate the fact that this is happening after 40 years, anything else, would be like sulking in a room by yourself on your own birthday party. Looking for some way to organize a show out of 40 years' worth of material, I decided to draw on five albums, each representing a decade: Look Sharp (1979), Night And Day (1982), Laughter And Lust (1991), Rain (2008) and Fool (2019). We'll also throw in a couple of songs from other albums and some new covers. I can't wait. Let's party.", Tracklist, 1. Big Black Cloud, 2. Fabulously Absolute, 3. Dave, 4. Strange Land, 5. Friend Better, 6. Fool, 7. 32 Kisses, 8. Alchemy, Gegevens, Artiest(en), Joe Jackson | Joe Jackson, Releasedatum, 18 januari 2019, Label, Earmusic, Productinformatie, Configuratie, CD (ALBUM), Aantal stuks in verpakking, 1 disk, Speelduur, 42:07, Taal, Engels, Overige kenmerken, Box set, Nee, Compilatie, Nee, Muziekgenre, Pop, Soort verpakking, Digipack