In the classic strutting-with-a-straight- stand rock star avatar established and defined by Robert Plant and Mick Jagger, America had no finer offering in the category than Peter Wolf. Seth Justman joined on piano and organ in 1969, and that lineup would hold steady for 14 years and as many albums. Wolf had a band at the time - The Hallucinations - and was particularly fond of their drummer, Stephen Bladd Wolf proposed to bring him along into an amped-up, ramped-up version of what the J Geils Blues Band was already doing. A fast-talking DJ named Peter Wolf from the Bronx arrived in town and landed a job at Boston’s brand-new FM radio station, WBCN, and when Wolf heard the J Geils Blues Band at a Cambridge club one day, he saw the future. Fans of the band can probably guess these accompanists were Magic Dick and Danny Klein.
J Geils himself was an acoustic slide guitarist who was popular in the Cambridge folk scene around that time, playing in an eponymous blues trio with a master harmonica player and an acoustic bassist. The J Geils Band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in the late ‘60s.
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