’70s Rock Legend, Inspired by Bob Dylan, Announces Special Tour 62 Years After Beginning Career

More than six decades after Peter Wolf began his music career, the former J. Geils Band frontman is getting ready for another run of shows.

Wolf has announced six new fall 2026 dates with his longtime backing band, the Midnight Travelers, beginning Nov. 5 in Derry, New Hampshire, and wrapping up with a hometown performance in Boston on Nov. 28. The concerts follow his return to the stage earlier this year after spending more than a year away from touring.

The new dates arrive during a particularly reflective chapter for Wolf.

In 2025, he released Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses, an unconventional memoir filled with stories about the musicians, writers and other figures who shaped his life. Promoting the book kept him away from regular touring, but Wolf returned to performing in February 2026 and continued playing select dates through April.

His fascination with music stretches back to the early 1960s.

Wolf began his career in 1964, years before joining the J. Geils Band, and his formative experiences included seeing the burgeoning folk scene surrounding Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village.

“I was browsing through a record bin one afternoon when I heard a voice that caught my ear from behind the thin half-closed curtain separating the front of the store from the back,””Wolf wrote in his memoir. “I went back toward the curtain to listen more closely, attracted to the unusual style of this voice.”

The voice belonged to Dylan, whose arrival in New York and ascent through that community became an enduring point of reference for Wolf, who later found his own path through rock, blues and R&B.

“The work of all those people I’ve admired so much has defined a lot of my life,” Wolf The Guardian. “Because I was lucky enough to spend so many private moments with them, my mission was to be an observer and to share all that I got to see.”

By the late 1960s, Wolf had joined the J. Geils Band, eventually becoming the charismatic voice behind songs including “Must of Got Lost,” “Love Stinks,” “Freeze-Frame” and the chart-topping “Centerfold.” After leaving the group in the 1980s, he built a wide-ranging solo career while continuing to draw on the roots music that had captivated him as a young musician.

His latest shows will pull from both sides of that history.

At an April concert in Detroit, Wolf performed for nearly two and a half hours, mixing selections from his solo catalog with J. Geils Band favorites. The fall itinerary will take him through New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut before concluding at Boston’s Shubert Theatre.

Sixty-two years after beginning his career, Wolf is still returning to the music that first set him in motion. His latest tour adds another chapter to a journey that began amid the folk and rock revolution of the 1960s and continues onstage today.

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