Wolf Redboy’s Music CD Release
Over at RemoteScan one of the employees (he handles technical software sales to medical and financial corporations around the world) is my long time friend, Wolf Redboy, who is a movie maker, novelist, and musician. He just released a brand new CD, and is having a CD release party this friday night (right after the RemoteScan party). I think his party will get going by 11pm. Here is what Wolf facebooked about it: “Wolf Redboy CD Release Party at the Badlander this Friday night with Secret Powers, Karl Blau, and Lake.”
In addition, I have just stumbled on the first review of his album, over at
Nickell’s Bag,
Music, art, and life in Missoula
Wolf Redboy, in the company of literate oddballs
October 15th, 2009, by Joe Nickell
“With a voice so pinched he sounds like he’s being strangled after inhaling a helium balloon, Wolf Redboy will never count among history’s great smooth crooners. Rather, his voice – both lyrically and musically – falls in the long line of earnestly oddball singers who’ve given grain to the glow of American popular music over the past half century: the Dylans and Reeds, Byrnes and Youngs.
Maddening men all, with their squeaking voices pronouncing profound thoughts, sometimes only barely keeping a tune, always commanding attention. Redboy, a Missoula-raised musician who has played his original music around town for the past several years, may not yet stand shoulder to shoulder among those greats. But he undoubtedly walks in their footsteps, as made evident on a new, three-song demo CD that he and his new band will release this Friday night, Oct. 16, at the Badlander….”
Read the full review on Joe’s blog here