Peter Wolf Spotting: On Stage With Shelby Lynne @ Scullers Jazz Club – Jan 17th 2013

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The Backstage Blogger: Did You Know This About Peter Wolf?

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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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Peter Wolf’s Roots: Blues, Soul—and Country, Too

Source: Wall Street Journal

“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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