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“Tragedy”

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5. Peter Wolf & Shelby Lynne, “Tragedy” –
On the lead-off track to Wolf’s impressive “Midnight Souvenirs,” the former J. Geils Band frontman takes Lynne on a Stones-meet-Stax romp through a romantic break-up. Controlled anguish at its finest.

VOTE FOR PETER WOLF: Artist Of The Year; Album Of The Year & Song Of The Year.

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Peter Wolf, solo artist and J. Geils singer, makes his Narrows debut in November (26th), although he has attended at least one show (Shelby Lynne‘s) at our fabled location.

Peter lived an interesting life even before he came to national attention as the wild man voice of the J.Geils Band.

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“To me,” he explained in a recent phone conversation, “country’s an obvious kind of leap once you get sanctified into the world of rock ‘n’ roll, and it overtakes you like it overtook me—when I first heard Little Richard, Elvis and then Johnny Cash. I started to find out where they came from, their influences. And for me, it seems like the honky-tonks that were home for country artists like Buck Owens, Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell were simply made for one kind of blue-collar culture and ethnicity, just as the juke joints were for the African-Americans who also were working in fields and mills and moving up North to get more work. I don’t see any difference, finally, between Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters, whom I met and even became friends with when I got deep into blues, and their tremendous sense of both tradition and the present, and George Jones or Hank Williams.”

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Let’s play a game of word association.

Are you beginning to get a sense of where this album is coming from?

Peter Wolf Explores Roots of Rock

Rock is a by-product of diverse musical styles, varied geographic influences, and a melting pot of ethnic origins. More than anything, as a relatively young art form, rock is driven by artists’ influences. Read an interview with any rocker and if the topic surfaces, your average performer can reel off five major influences in less than ten seconds. Most performing rockers are as much fans of other artists as are their fans who buy their music and merchandise. It’s the nature of the beast.
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By Dave DeCastris:
“Peter Wolf’s “Midnight Souvenirs” could be another middle aged, typical, white songwriter anthem of a record but its not.”
Peter Wolf’s “Midnight Souvenirs” is a new decade, Americana, songwriting gem. This is not a joke. Many records arrived in the mail this past month that deserve some attention or brief mention first off. Great releases by The Morning Benders as well as Jakob Dylan’s, T-Bone Burnett produced, project, plus two advances I’m probably not supposed to mention yet by Rockford, IL’s own, The Pimps, and Chicago’s heir to the throne, Cameron McGill and What Army. The latter’s gonna be real hard not to talk about later this year.
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I didn’t know much about Peter Wolf prior to getting Midnight Souvenirs (PW Recording, Ltd/Verve) other than what I’m supposed to know. Peter is the former songwriter and front man for the late 70’s early 80’s rockers the J. Geils Band whose two big hits, “Centerfold” and “Freeze Frame”, are so entrenched in the FM cannon that I actually heard them on the radio while writing this review. The band’s style was rooted in blues-roots music fused with pop-rock sensibilities marked by Peter’s distinct, direct vocals. Following a familiar pattern in music history, the band broke up and Peter continued to record as a critically acclaimed solo artist. His 7th release, Midnight Souvenirs, continues Peter’s prolific career as an important songwriter, musician, and artist. Call it roots-rock, boogie, Americana, blues, whatever-you-will but Peter makes it clear that before there was Wilco, Ryan Adams, Paul Westerberg, or any other roots-music cult heroes – there was Peter.
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By Don McLeese:
As the hyperkinetic, rabble-rousing frontman of Boston’s J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf seemed like the sort of rocker who might burn out quickly rather than grow old gracefully. Yet the former deejay has always held a reverence for music (and musicians) older than him. And his solo career has found those roots deepening, with Wolf developing a command of subtlety, nuance and intimacy–a musical maturity beyond the one-dimensional caricature of “Centerfold” and “Love Stinks.”
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Yesterday’s interview with Peter Wolf is now available to listen to in full online. Click here.
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