{"id":3330,"date":"2018-01-20T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2021-04-09T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:19:55","slug":"wolfman-del-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wolfman-del-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfman of Del Rio (Terry Allen\/Wolfman Jack)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wolfman of Del Rio\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yn6cLPTBl44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Terry Allen&#8217;s masterpiece of corrosive American dreaming, from his\u00a0<em>Lubbock (On Everything)<\/em> LP. I&#8217;ve written in a previous post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/gimme-ride-heaven-boy\/\">my discovery of Allen&#8217;s work<\/a>, but at <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3336 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lubbock-on-everything-300x294.jpg?resize=300%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/>first I thought of him as a quirky novelty writer and it took a couple of years before I immersed myself in that album. Thirty years later, it&#8217;s still a relatively little-known (though widely acknowledged) classic, and anyone who hasn&#8217;t heard it should just go out and buy a copy.<\/p>\n<p>This song is Allen at his best, sketching simple lines that evoke the power and pitfalls of the romantic myths that underpin much of my life and the music I love. It opens on a stretch of western highway familiar from a million movies, the &#8220;blue asphaltum line,&#8221; beloved of James Dean and Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, Thelma and Louise. The soundtrack is late-night radio, blasting across the Texas-Mexico border on the 250,000 watts of XERF, 1570-AM, punctuated by the dark growl of the midnight master, the Wolfman of Del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I first heard Wolfman Jack, he was a chubby self-parody cruising through a second career courtesy of <em>American Graffiti<\/em>, so it took a while for me to connect him with the werevoice haunting Allen&#8217;s song. But it was the same guy. Born Robert Smith in Brooklyn, reborn as the Wolfman in Shreveport, he began <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3332 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/XERB-Wolfman-image-e1618020949988.jpg?resize=134%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"194\" \/>broadcasting over XERF in 1963 and in the early years concealed his identity, refusing interviews and photographs. Station promos showed a drawing of a hip wolf, or photographs of a hirsute face of uncertain ethnicity, eyes hidden behind dark shades. He broadcast from midnight till 4am, and could be <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3333 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/XERF-Wolfman-composite-e1618021037347.jpg?resize=164%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"186\" \/>heard all over the Central and Western United States, and sometimes as far away as Europe. He played current hits, deep blues, grinding R&amp;B, howled along with favorite records, sometimes called a lady friend live on the air, and was worshiped by millions of teenagers as a mysterious creature of the night.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard for those of us who came along later and were introduced to Jack and that music as nostalgic &#8220;oldies&#8221; to imagine how they sounded and what they meant to millions of listeners who heard them as the sound of a wild new world, of infinite possibilities, of escape from dead-end towns and dead-end lives.<\/p>\n<p>But it is all too easy to recognize the hangover: a world of people raised on those fantasies, yearning to be daring individualists but trapped in the decaying badlands of late industrial capitalism, fighting to hold onto poisoned dreams. That&#8217;s the theme of Allen&#8217;s song, and it&#8217;s one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Years after I learned this, I was working on a project called <em>River of Song<\/em> with a sound crew from the Smithsonian, and one of the guys had recently finished a project about early R&amp;B radio. One of the guys they&#8217;d planned to interview was Wolfman Jack, and he showed up at the studio ready to talk. 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Thirty years later, it&#8217;s still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wolfman-del-rio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wolfman of Del Rio (Terry Allen\/Wolfman Jack)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wolfman of Del Rio (Terry Allen\/Wolfman Jack) - Old Friends: A Songobiography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wolfman-del-rio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wolfman of Del Rio (Terry Allen\/Wolfman Jack) - Old Friends: A Songobiography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Terry Allen&#8217;s masterpiece of corrosive American dreaming, from his\u00a0Lubbock (On Everything) LP. 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