MUSIC NEWS - Peter Wolf (solo performed, painter and best know as the frontman of the J. Geils Band) has announced plans to release Midnight Souvenirs, (out via Verve/UMe) on April 6, 2010. The album will feature an interesting range of guests, and the 14 songs on the album span the country blues of “Tragedy” with Shelby Lynne and the hard-rockin' “The Night Comes Down,” dedicated to the late Willy Deville, to the bittersweet texture of “It's Too Late For Me” with legend, Merle Haggard, and the punchline impact of vintage Philly roots R & B on “Overnight Lows.” Wolf and Neko Case deliver an eternal bouquet on “The Green Fields of Summer.”
‘Midnight Souvenirs’ is said to span the decades and musical genres while traveling into the after hours of moody, smoky clubs and down to the deep delta of America’s South with its sounds of shake, rattle and roll.
"I never obsess about the commercial aspect of my music, just like with my artwork," says Wolf, also an accomplished painter whose art world connections have included Norman Rockwell, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Director David Lynch.
"What matters is if the painting is interesting to keep or show to somebody." It's the same with the songs; you hope people will make an emotional connection. I absorb the influences and reshape them," he says. "The act of creation is what gives meaning to my life and keeps me going--in music and in art."
We look forward to his new efforts...
‘Midnight Souvenirs’ track list:
1. Tragedy - with Shelby Lynne
2. I Don't Wanna Know
3. Watch Her Move
4. There's Still Time
5. Lying Low
6. The Green Fields Of Summer - with Neko Case
7. Thick As Thieves
8. I'm Always Asking For You
9. Leaves Us All Behind
10. Overnight Lows
11. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
12. Don't Try And Change Her
13. The Night Comes Down (for Willy Deville)
14. It's Too Late For Me - with Merle Haggard
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