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Artist: W. Dire Wolff - Songwriter, Vocalist, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar,
Slide Guitar, Bass, and Recording
Artist’s Musical style: Folk, Western, Psychedelic, Country, Rock, Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals, and basic American music.
Artist Bio: W. Dire Wolff writes, records, and performs songs that reflect a basic authentic sound of simple Americana music with a hint of far eastern influence. This music reflects the author’s time spent in the wilderness and ghost towns of Western America and his travels to Tibet, Japan, and other Asian lands. His songs tell stories of graveyards, cowboys, heartbreaks, and blue mountain moments.
Music Profile: Dire Wolf performs collections of rock oriented western and folk rock ballads, forlorn love songs, and simple mountain songs. He also performs instrumental music on his six and twelve string acoustic guitars, which was composed for playing in temples and sacred places. The telecaster guitar sound combined with booming acoustic guitars, complimented by the use of a vintage Fender steel guitar is the hallmark of Wolff‘s psychedelic country sound.
Artist Summary: W. Dire Wolff is a seasoned coffee house folk singer, psychedelic troubadour, lead guitarist, songwriter, singer, and slide guitar player. He has played small shows and for audiences as large as 20,000. W. Dire Wolff currently lives, records, and performs in Northern California.
Independent Release Albums:
Princess of the Rodeo - 2006 - Collection of songs written in Montana and Wyoming.
W. Dire Wolff - Vocals, Guitars,
Mario Cipollina - Bass, Background Vocals, Synthesizer Bass, More Guitars,
Production Assistance and Produced Tracks 3 and 5
Neal Carson - Guitar,
Kurt Huget - Mandolin, Banjo, Piano, Background Vocals,
Phil Richardson - Fiddle,
Ed Michaels - Drums
"pretty nice girl is so beautiful... your music reminds me of just how much i really love country & western music..."
Monterria - click here
"you sound like gram parsons and lou reed all rolled around on a drunken afternoon!" Hummingbird - click here
"really digging your music too! i'm sure hank williams (not ,jr.) and gram parsons are smiling down on you...."Andy - The Whatevers - click here
No Time For Running
12 String Guitar - Spirit Music
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
It is a pleasure to have you as my new MySpace friend… I find your MySpace page, your talent and your enthusiasm for music pleason’ to many… I welcome you’re other MySpace friends to visit my MySpace page that I’ve dedicated to my admiration of many talented guitar playing musicians of many styles… Stop by check it out and leave a comment if you like… Thanks Ken…
My dear friend Dire, It has been along time since we have connected. I
am going through a time of change and growth, removing the things that I need
to remove, letting go of that which I have out grown, and expanding my capacity
to love. Change always seems to challenge us. I am grateful for all of your
love and support.
Today expand your breathing to include all things including
yourself. Allow yourself to find the love and beauty in all that is around you.
