A Cure for Loneliness Peter Wolf

• 1 Rolling On 04:06
• 2 It Was Always so Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman) 02:41
• 3 Peace of Mind 03:48
• 4 How Do You Know 03:07
• 5 Fun for Awhile 03:36
• 6 Wastin' Time (Live) 04:00
• 7 Some Other Time, Some Other Place 03:51
• 8 It's Raining 04:19
• 9 Love Stinks (Live) 02:25
• 10 Mr. Mistake 01:43
• 11 Tragedy 02:46
• 12 Stranger 01:29
• Total Runtime 37:51

Info for A Cure for Loneliness

Einige mögen sich noch an den legendären und energiegeladenen Auftritt der J. Geils Band im Rockpalast erinnern, als Peter Wolf in der Begeisterung des Publikums badete. Ihren größten Erfolg hatte die Band Anfang der 80er mit dem Hit Centerfold.

In seiner musikalischen Karriere hat sich Peter Wolf mit seiner unverwechselbaren, persönlichen Musik den Ruf als einer der fesselndsten Rock 'n' Roller erarbeitet.

Mit A Cure for Loneliness setzt Peter Wolf seine musikalische Reise als Solo-Künstler fort. Das Album präsentiert seine unbändige Ausstrahlung. Begleitet wird Peter Wolf auf seiner Reise von angesehenen Musikern, mit denen er zum Teil seit vielen Jahren zusammenarbeitet: Keyboarder Kenny Weiß und die Mitglieder seiner Tourband, den Midnight Travelers: Die Gitarristen Duke Levine und Kevin Barry, Bassist Marty Ballou und die Schlagzeuger Tom Arey und Shawn Pelton.

Für Peter Wolf hat sich die Technologie im Laufe der Jahre verändert, aber er stammt aus einer Zeit, in der Alben einen Anfang, eine Mitte und ein Ende hatten. Er fühlt sich immer noch dieser Kunstform verpflichtet, dass ein Album eine gewisse Strömung haben sollte.

"Gleich vier Texte übernahm der durch seine Winwood-Coops bekannte Will Jennings, besonders intensiv auf der dunklen Durchhalteballade “Rolling On” und dem Shuffle “How Do You Know” mit Gitarrenkunst von Larry Campbell und Vocals von Teresa Williams." (Good Times)

Peter Wolf
A Cure for Loneliness manifests the same vibrant passion for music that’s motivated Peter Wolf for most of his life. Growing up in an artistic, politically engaged family in the Bronx, he became an early rock ‘n’ roll convert after attending an Alan Freed rock ‘n’ roll revue that included performances by Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Frankie Lymon. His thirst for new and old sounds drove him to exploring blues, soul, country, folk and jazz, inspiring weekly visits to Harlem’s Apollo Theatre and leading to acquaintances with many of the music’s surviving originators.

Wolf’s talent as a painter won him a grant to study at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. While a student there, he experienced a life-changing epiphany after jumping on stage to sing with a blues band at a loft party. He soon talked himself into membership in that band, The Hallucinations.

“I didn’t join a band to meet girls,” Wolf recalls. “I joined my first band to meet musicians. Painting was a fascination for me, but I was a music fanatic, and sitting in with that band was a born-again type of experience for me. I was transfixed, and myself and some of the guys in the band would check out performances by the musicians we admired so much, like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker and John Coltrane and Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers. Those roots stayed with me.”

Wolf’s natural loquaciousness won him a job as an all-night DJ on the fledgling FM rock station WBCN. Adopting the persona of “the Woofa Goofa,” he spun raw rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm ‘n’ blues, channeling the spirit of the flashy, fast-talking DJs he’d grown up listening to.

Wolf’s encyclopedic musical knowledge came in handy when he and some like-minded Boston players formed the J. Geils Band, much of whose early repertoire was drawn from Wolf’s vast record collection. The band soon became a local favorite injecting a much-needed jolt of raw, uninhibited rock 'n’ roll into the '70s scene and was soon signed by Jerry Wexler for Atlantic Records. Between 1970 and 1983, the J. Geils Band released 13 influential albums, topped the pop single charts with 1981’s “Freeze Frame,” “Love Stinks,” “Centerfold,” and earned a reputation as one of rock’s most exciting live acts, thanks in large part to Wolf’s flamboyant, hyperactive stage presence.

After going solo with 1984’s Lights Out, Wolf continued to stake out new musical territory with the subsequent releases Lights Out, Come As You Are, Up to No Good, Long Line, Fool’s Parade, Sleepless and Midnight Souvenirs, and A Cure For Loneliness. His solo work has seen him collaborate with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Merle Haggard, John Lee Hooker, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Little Milton, Wilson Pickett, Shelby Lynne and Neko Case. Wolf temporarily reunited with his J. Geils Band cohorts for live shows on several occasions between 1999 and 2015, but his solo career has remained his creative focus, as A Cure for Loneliness makes clear.

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