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The New Yorker recently claimed that Garland Jeffreys "positively oozes New York," and never more so than on "The King Of In Between," his first album in 13 years. A bold statement from an artist who has been releasing music since the late '60s, "King" leaps from hard-charging rock to classic blues to heady reggae. It's a reflection on vitality, as well as a lament and love letter to Jeffreys' hometown and the stomping ground of his youth, Coney Island.
"The King Of In Between" is the work of a mature artist and the distillation of Garland Jeffreys' long career dedicated to addressing socially conscious themes across a broad range of musical styles. He's been called an edgy urban poet, the sound of New York, a confessional singer-songwriter, and an explorer of the links between rock, race and rebellion whose work should be taught in schools. With songs covered by artists as diverse as punk pioneers The Circle Jerks ("Wild in the Streets") and the neo-folk band Vetiver ("Lon Chaney"), Jeffreys is truly unclassifiable.
"Before Beck, there was Garland Jeffreys." - Toronto Star
"Had he been born earlier, Mr. Jeffreys could have had a career as a jazz singer... had he been born later, he might have been a peer to Citizen Cope and Ben Harper, who mix up their playlists and benefit from followings not bound by the dictates of radio." - Wall Street Journal
Uncle Frank & the Co-Defendants is an americana, rock n' roll, spoken word outfit featuring the words and wit of Uncle Frank Lauria.
Uncle Frank spins modern parables with humor, biting satire and sprinklings of pop-culture references that are true to his beatnik roots.
In the late 1950's Uncle Frank read poetry in Greenwich Village and uptown at the Seven Arts Coffee Shop with the likes of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. Frank credits Kerouac with teaching him how to sleep on a bus (you curl up and wedge your feet against the arm rest). A best selling author of the Dr. Orient series of fiction, Frank has travelled the world hanging with Paul Bowles in Tangier, William Burroughs, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful in New York, and Tom Waits in Jamaica.
The Co-Defendants are: Dudley Hughes, Jerry Boxley, Chris von Sneidern, and Will Morris. The band just released it's first album, "Lost in the Underground."
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