Wolf's hopeful, emphatic vision of the city's rebirth from the ruins is advanced in the core compositions in this set: I'm Back, Across the Great Divide, Crescent City Starlights, and the anthemic When We Were Young, a song which-if soulful, swinging, intelligent music written with wisdom about real life issues and performed to perfection had any commercial value in the modern marketplace-would be shooting to the top of this week's charts.
Wolf's fervent social pronouncements are balanced by more personal concerns in a smooth, reflective One Day Being a Fool and the exultant musical pledge of marital fidelity called Only You Baby. And there's plenty of Grade-A Wolfman funk like Tweakin', Back on the Wolf Track and the dance-floor marathon Doin' Your Own Thing highlighted by the Roadmasters and their leader's fluid, effortlessly emotive guitar.
Wolfman has never stopped growing as a creative artist working in the urban blues idiom, and his persistence has brought him in his maturity to an even higher level of accomplishment as a masterful contemporary blues composer who deals with intelligence and grace in issues of great social and personal import. And his band of Roadmasters-it just keeps getting better and better.

Walter Wolfman Washington has been an icon on the New Orleans music scene for decades. His searing guitar work and soulful vocals have defined the Crescent City's unique musical hybrid of R&B, funk and the blues since he formed his first band in the 1970s.