Wolfman Jack was a signature radio voice for years. He is indelibly associated with classic rock. He was born and raised in New York and traveled the country spinning records and growling into microphones all over the United States.

In 1961 he married Lou Lamb, a girl from northeastern North Carolina. In 1989, Wolfman and Lou moved to her home in Belvidere, NC. Belvidere is a fork in the road between the Perquimans and Chowan rivers, not far from Hertford. (That’s the town where my grandfather Bill Gray was born, and the song “Carolina Moon” was written.)

Jack lies buried in his yard in Belvidere, his headstone easily seen from Highway 37.

Wolfman made three oldies albums in the 1990s, recording a few tracks and doing segues for the collections. He recorded them at Star Trak Studios in Washington, NC. My friend Blake Scott called me and allowed me to photograph one session for the Washington Daily News.

Here are the photos from one recording session, May 11, 1994, about a year before Jack’s death.