I could've called this album "The Greatest Hits of Andy Wolff" or "Andy Wolff's Greatest Hits", but that sounded too pretentious.  Instead, I decided to go with what I chose as a title for this album.  I felt it was more descriptive of what this album is about.  One might say that it's a celebration of history in a place that I can literally call home.  I'm talking about Andyland Studios, where musicians come from far and wide to play together and drink homebrew.  This is where I had my humble beginnings.  This is where I learned to play my first D chord that only took one minute to set up.  Over the years, I played with a number of groups such as; The Images; Three Neat Guys; Zombie Wolf; Oxtongue Lake; and last, but certainly not least, The Rifflifters.

1987-90
If 1967 was the summer of love, then 1987 was the summer of U.I.C., at least for me anyway!  I just purchased a four track recorder and had a whole bunch of instruments, microphones and a mixing board, just waiting to be used.  Whatever It Brings was one of the fruits that came out of what I now call the U.I.C. sessions.  As the years passed on by, I decided to put together my first serious album.  I recorded my best tunes to date, going back as far as a song I wrote in 1982 called Manican Man.  I played this song the first time I played on stage.  People to this day will still come up to me and say, "Hey mon, I remember you playing at Lakeview High mon!  I liked that song you played called Manican Mon!  Cool tune mon!"  To maintain the true spirit of the song, I got two of the musicians who helped write and arrange that song to record it with me.  Bad Year is about lost dreams, abject poverty and total disillusionment.  I to this day, think the 80's really sucked as a decade musically, as well as in other ways that I would rather not get into at this time.  I tried to make this song sound as anti-eighties as I could, by adding feedback and avoiding having that "80's Rock Ballad Grand Canyon Snare Drum Sound!"  A Hippie Kind of Dream was supposed to be a joke song about the hippie movement.  As it turned out, most people consider this my best song that I ever wrote.  94FM wanted it released on their compilation CD called "Homegrown 1990," so I decided to call my first album by the same name, to assure that I could ride the wave of the potential popularity of "Homegrown 1990."  It's Just Me is one of my personal favourite songs to play and listen to.  It was originally written for Oxtongue Lake, but the band broke up before I could record it with them.

1991
For my next album, I decided to go for a more laid back, mellow sounding approach.  The concept of this album was to be as musically pure as possible.  I didn't want to use any electrical instruments or multiple over-dubs, like I did on my first album.  I originally wanted to record this album outdoors on a cool summer day, but I didn't have the resources to do it.  I opted for recording my voice accompanied by an acoustic guitar.  I didn't want the album to sound monotonous, so I added some sounds of nature to give it some texture.  This World is a song I wrote about the same time as "Manican Man."  It's a folk song about despair and hope, during an uncertain time of my life.  Sit Beneath a Shady Tree is a happy-go-lucky song that I wrote while treeplanting in 1988.  I find most environmentalists to be flaky and self-righteous.  Nothing Will Be Done is a song that basically sets the record straight concerning the environment.  I included Nature in this collection because it made me 20 bucks!  I think it must have been used for the opening soundtrack to an American fishing show.

1992-1996
I had to come up with fresh material for my next album. I started to take a country rock direction, but found that it didn't suit me.  These sessions produced about a dozen or so songs, but I wasn't satisfied with the end result.  In 1994, I returned to my folk-psychedelic roots and recorded another dozen songs.  Again I wasn't entirely happy with the results.  Although my last attempts at albums proved unsatisfactory, I decided to use the best songs from both sessions for my next album.  As well, I wrote some additional material.  The album was suitably titled Here We Go Again.  The title track was a song that I recorded a few years before, but was re-recorded for this album.  One Man, One Life... was another song that was re-recorded.  This song is about my frustrations with music as a whole.  Young and Free was about the care free, happy-go-lucky days of a past gone by.  No Time for Compromise is about how important one's principles can be, in order to achieve one's peace of mind.  Both of these songs were remixed for the new album.  Night is Falling was a perfect example of life imitating art, as opposed to art imitating life.

1997
A new year brought in an album of new material.  Instead of doing a "Hippie Kinda Here We Go Again" album, I opted for a back to basic roots recording.  My next album would be called "Garbage Can Blues."  There was no effort made to polish up this album.  I just wanted to put something out that was simple, easy and unimaginative.  I wanted this album to have an authentic blues sound.  Uptown, not Downtown is the kind of song you might hear on Alligator Records.  It's an uplifting number that confirms that life doesn't have to suck, after all.  Playin' the Blues came about when I was jamming Sunday nights at Armani's.  While under the intoxicating influence of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, I wrote The Down and Out Blues.  Put the Blame on Me is song that pretty well sums up my shenanigans.  In my musical career, I never took the easy road towards getting musical acceptance.  I have performed songs that have offended some people; yet, a significant number of people were entertained.  That's what rock n' roll is all about.  Sooner or later you have to Pay Your Due.