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Wolf Mail (Born Wilfred Alexander Mail) (29 March 1972, Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and guitarist, hailed by fans and music critics as the indisputed heavy weight champion of electric Blues. Mail is considered by many as one of the most innovative and passionate electric guitarists of recent time.

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Canadian born Wolf Mail started playing guitar at age 10 listening to Elmore James and Ray Charles records. He did his first gig at 14 and ran away from home at 17 to tour with his own band. Later on that year he met with Detroit guitarist Ted Nugent and spent some time on the road with him. Meeting Ted was very influential for Wolf as he decided to relocate to California shortly after to pursuit his musical career. From his early gigs at the famous Whisky a go–go in Los Angeles, to the Shibuya nights in Tokyo, Japan or the “Quartier latin” in Paris, France, Wolf always had an intense passion for the stage as he is currently one of the rare artists in today’s scene to successfully tour four continents on a yearly basis. He's played nearly 2000 concerts and has travelled the equivalent of 30 times around the earth as he clocks in over 200 gigs a year in the US, Canada, Japan, Europe and Australia. In the year 2004 and 2005, he has sold more records as an independent artist than 95% of all major releases in the U.S. With weekly radio airplay in over 1500 stations worldwide, Mail's last record “Solid ground” managed to spend 3 weeks in the Japanese top 10 best selling Blues/country charts (May 2005), and 10 days in the U.S top 100 best selling Blues charts. (Dec 2003). Mail who has been describded by NPR in Memphis, USA as “The missing link between Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan” has a very clean, powerful and yet intense guitar style. During his headline performance at the Narooma Blues festival with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tony Jagger has said “Words simply cannot describe the intensity and clarity that comes out of this man’s guitar” . The Australian southern star also states “ The man has a voice that will raise chicken skin down your back” Wolf’s playing is concentrated with no waste, as the UK Gloucester times recalls “Wringing emotions out of every note and making each one count”. Wolf’s live performances are legendary, and as Ron Edmonds from Exclusive management puts it “You always get something out of a Wolf Mail show, if you don’t relate to his songs you will sure relate to the intense passion he’s got for it”