Peter Wolf - A Cure For Loneliness

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In a musical career spanning half a century, Peter Wolf has earned a reputation as one of rock 'n' roll's most compelling performers, while consistently making distinctive, personally charged music that demonstrates his mastery of a bottomless well of American musical styles.

Wolf continues his musical journey with A Cure for Loneliness, his eighth solo release and his Concord debut. The 12-song album ranks with the artist's most adventurous and accomplished work, showcasing his irrepressible charisma while encompassing his effortless affinity for country, blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll.

A Cure for Loneliness includes nine new Wolf originals, four of them co-written with Grammy/Academy Award-winning songwriter Will Jennings. The material ranges from the loose-limbed gospel boogie of "How Do You" to the rousing rock of "Wasting Time" to the acoustic reverie of "Some Other Time, Some Other Place" to the swinging big-band swagger of "Mr. Mistake" to the introspective balladry of "Peace of Mind" and "Fun For A While."

Other highlights are an audacious bluegrass reworking of the classic J. Geils anthem "Love Stinks," and the stirring soul ballad "It's Raining," which Wolf co-wrote with R&B pioneer Don Covay. Wolf had originally intended to record the song as a duet with soul legend Bobby Womack, but received the news of Womack's death while he was working on the song's instrumental track.

A Cure for Loneliness also features a trio of obscure covers that reflects Wolf's wide-ranging musical interests: the honky-tonk lament "It Was Always So Easy (To Find An Unhappy Woman)," the country heartbreaker "Stranger," and the haunting '50's ballad "Tragedy."

A Cure for Loneliness' thematic centerpiece is its opening track "Rolling On," a spare yet insistent statement of purpose that underlines Wolf's stature as a world-class rock 'n' roll survivor.

"It's a song about getting through life and trying to prevail, and that's what the whole record is about," Wolf states. "It's basically saying 'I'm still here.' Change is constant, but it's not necessarily negative, so you just have to keep rolling on."

Wolf recorded A Cure for Loneliness with a prestigious group of musicians that includes several longtime collaborators such as keyboardist Kenny White, who co-produced the album with Wolf, and the members of his touring band, the Midnight Travelers: guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry, bassist Marty Ballou, drummers Tom Arey and Shawn Pelton.

 

Side 1

Rolling On

It Was Always Easy (to Find An Unhappy Woman)

Peace of Mind

How Do You

Fun for a While

Side 2

Wasting Time

Some Other Time, Some Other Place

It’s Raining

Love Stinks

Mr. Mistake

Tragedy

Stranger

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