Jim Wolf – No Setbacks This Time Around

Setbacks. They happen to everyone, but Fairfield, Connecticut’s Jim Wolf had one few artists can relate to, he lost almost his entire first album, ‘No Sleep What-So-Ever’, due to a tree branch. “It fell on the main line to the power supply of the studio,” he remembers, “and no surge protector or back up supply could save the hard drive from being fried.” The silver lining for him is that he feels re-recording the album helped make him a better artist. Fast-forward to today, Wolf is readying the release of his second album, ‘The Stars Never Lie’, and this time no tree limbs have been involved in the recording process. Wolf sat down with me this week to discuss what has been involved, which includes a lot of growth, a lot of inspiration, and finding a few ways to deal with the constant comparisons to longtime friend John Mayer. Read the interview at adambernard.blogspot.com.