From Village Voice 60 Best Songs Written about New York City 7. Garland Jeffreys - Wild in the Streets Garland Jeffreys recorded Wild in the Streets with swamp-boogie grand wizard Dr. John, but its hot-summer-asphalt beat and back-alley-hiss chorus are NYC through and through — just like Jeffreys himself. Born in Brooklyn in the 1940s, half black and half Puerto Rican, he went to college with Lou Reed and was an early protégé of John Cale. His rock-, soul-, and reggae-inflected albums brought him a measure of acclaim in the late 1970s, but even back then Jeffreys was an underrated and underappreciated homegrown virtuoso. Though it was cut in 1973, Wild in the Streets didnt make it onto an album for another four years. Thats fine in retrospect, because as a slice of New York life it has proven timeless. Look at it this way: If you go into a jukebox bar in this town and Garland Jeffreys aint on the jukebox, turn around. Youre in the wrong bar.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:43:13 +0000
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