Various - Bear Family Records On The Prowl With The Wolf (CD)

The wolf has captivated the human imagination since the very beginning. No surprise, as it has accompanied us from the beginning, watching, tracking and threatening us - it was our main competitor in the food chain, and we learned a lot by observing its hunting techniques. 

Our ancestors recognized the opportunities that domestication offered to help us hunt - and protect us from wolves. The wolf plays a central role in major religions and mythologies around the world. Its social order is similar to that of Homo Sapiens.  

Bear Family offers a range of songs that deal with the wolf or use the wolf as an image/metaphor. A wide selection of styles and artists are presented here, ranging from beat pioneer and jazz eccentric Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson to Elvis Presley - the King of Rock and Roll, to legendary blues icon Howlin' Wolf and obscure cult heroes such as Bunker Hill, Leon Payne and Ray Harris. It's all here - from blues to northern band sound, from hillbilly to R'n'R.

The album shows how artists use the wolf to portray their supposedly special qualities or habits, to boast about their sexual prowess, to create a menacing image of themselves or to portray the loner - the outcast of society. 

Listen with fascination as these exciting mini-myths by 20th century artists invoke the wolf in the same way our ancestors did when they used Canis Lupus as a demon, scourge, totem, spirit guide, companion of the gods or foster mother of empires.