Editing Up to No Good

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Up to No Good
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Peter Wolf]]
| cover      = Peter Wolf - Up to No Good.JPG
| alt        =A painting of a woman in a teddy sitting on a bed
| released   = 1990
| recorded   = 
| venue      =
| studio     = 16th Avenue Sound and Emerald Studios ([[Nashville, TN]]); [[The Bennett House]] and The Castle ([[Franklin, TN]]).
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[hard rock]]
| length     = 43:23
| label      = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| producer   = [[Peter Wolf]], [[Robert White Johnson]], [[Taylor Rhodes]]
| prev_title = [[Come as You Are (album)|Come As You Are]]
| prev_year  = 1987
| next_title = [[Long Line]]
| next_year  = 1996
}}
'''''Up to No Good''''' is the third solo album by the American musician [[Peter Wolf]], released in 1990 on [[MCA Records]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Steve |title=Lone Wolf |work=The Boston Globe |date=25 Feb 1990 |page=B27}}</ref><ref name=LA/>

==Production==
The album was produced by Wolf, [[Robert White Johnson]], and [[Taylor Rhodes]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Milward |first1=John |title=What Is Peter Wolf Up to These Days? |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=19 Apr 1990 |page=E1}}</ref> "Never Let It Go" is about the car crash that killed Wolf's high school girlfriend.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Chris |title=Peter Wolf and Nick Lowe resurface on new labels |work=Chicago Tribune |date=9 Mar 1990 |department=Friday |page=Q}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
{{album ratings
|rev1 = ''[[Calgary Herald]]''
|rev1score = C−<ref name="CH">{{cite news |last1=Obee |first1=Dave |title=Recent Releases |work=Calgary Herald |date=22 Mar 1990 |page=F4}}</ref>
|rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
|rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Wolf |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=4111 |website=Robert Christgau |access-date=9 March 2023}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="LA">{{cite news |last1=Hunt |first1=Dennis |title=In Brief |work=Los Angeles Times |date=29 Apr 1990 |department=Calendar |page=83}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]''
|rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="OC">{{cite news |last1=Erskine |first1=Evelyn |title=Peter Wolf Up to No Good |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=30 Mar 1990 |page=D6}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=885}}</ref>
}}
The ''[[Calgary Herald]]'' missed "the juvenile appeal that Wolf lucked into just before he and his J. Geils Band buddies went their separate ways."<ref name=CH/> The ''[[Toronto Star]]'' wrote that "it's a charming record, a lively and knowledgeable tome that finds its ground somewhere between the Detroit and Philadelphia schools of soul, while standing firm on a harder rock footing."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Potter |first1=Mitch |title=Peter Wolf Up to No Good |work=Toronto Star |date=23 Mar 1990 |page=D18}}</ref>

The ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' labeled some of the songs "classic primal funk with a conscience."<ref name=OC/> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' dismissed the album as "just one more attempt to capitalize on the appealing, but somewhat limited, rockaboogie sound Geils and company milked throughout the seventies."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Niester |first1=Alan |title=Up to No Good Peter Wolf |work=The Globe and Mail |date=23 Apr 1990 |page=C7}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Peter Wolf]], [[Taylor Rhodes]] and [[Robert White Johnson]], unless noted otherwise.
#"99 Worlds" – 3:35
#"Go Wild" – 3:43
#"When Women Are Lonely" – 3:45
#"Drive All Night" (Wolf, [[Desmond Child]]) – 3:42
#"Up to No Good" – 4:33
#"Lost in Babylon" – 3:57
#"Arrows and Chains" – 3:25
#"Daydream Getaway" ([[Janna Allen]], Wolf) – 3:44
#"Shades of Red – Shades of Blue" – 4:07
#"River Runs Dry" – 5:01
#"Never Let It Go" (Wolf, [[Will Jennings]]) – 3:57

== Personnel ==
* Peter Wolf – vocals, backing vocals, [[harmonica]]
* [[The Allman Brothers|Mike Lawler]] – keyboards
* Alan St. John – keyboards
* Byron House – keyboards, bass
* [[Taylor Rhodes]] – keyboards, guitars, percussion, backing vocals
* [[Johnny Neel]] – acoustic piano
* [[Matt Rollings]] – acoustic piano
* Larry Chaney – guitars
* [[Jeff Golub]] – guitars
* [[Barry Tashian]] – guitars
* [[Jimmie Lee Sloas]] – bass
* Angus Thomas – bass
* Bobby Chouinard – drums
* [[Robert White Johnson]] – percussion, backing vocals
* [[Terry McMillan (musician)|Terry McMillan]] – harmonica
* Arno Hecht – horns
* [[Jim Horn]] – horns
* Sam Levine – horns
* [[Wayne Jackson (musician)|Wayne Jackson]] – horns
* Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (7, 11)
* Kim Morrison – backing vocals (7, 11)

'''Technical personnel'''
* Peter Wolf – producer 
* Robert White Johnson – producer 
* Taylor Rhodes – producer 
* Rob Feaster – engineer, mixing 
* Paula Montondo – assistant engineer 
* [[Bob Ludwig]] – mastering at [[Masterdisk]] (New York, NY)
* [[Manhattan Design]] – design 
* [[Todd Schorr]] – cover painting
* Bobby DiMarzo – black and white photography 
* Jeff Katz – color photography

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
|+''Up to No Good'' chart performance
!scope="col"|Year
!scope="col"|Chart
!scope="col"|Position
|-
|1990
|scope="row" |The [[Billboard 200|''Billboard''&nbsp;200]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Wolf |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/peter-wolf/ |website=Billboard |access-date=8 March 2023}}</ref>
|111
|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Albums produced by Taylor Rhodes]]