His latest album, 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.

It’s been thirteen years since Jeffreys put out a full album of new music, the last being Wildlife Dictionary, released only in Europe. He took a number of years off to spend time raising his daughter. In recent years, he’s been performing in both Europe and the States, working with two bands, and acoustically with his long time accompanist Alan Freedman. “I’m at a wonderful point in my life.  I couldn’t be happier with the new record.  It’s been a labor of love and it’s completely true to me, a real reflection of everything I stand for.”

PETER CASE

Case was born in Buffalo, New York. A veteran of several rock bands and the local bar scene as a teenager, Case dropped out of high school when he was fifteen (he would later earn a GED), and after several years of traveling arrived in San Francisco in 1973, where he performed as a street musician. In 1980 he formed the pop-rock band the Plimsouls. “I’m a singer/ songwriter that uses all the American styles to get my stories across: Blues. Rock.nRoll. Country. Soul. R&B …& Folk..plus some rhythmic influences from around the world. I’ve always been into dynamic emotionally charged music you could use to tell a story or paint a picture
.” Currently, he is writing songs for a new Vanguard album, due out early next year
; releasing the acoustic album recorded last summer in San Francisco while he was on tour with David Perales. He is also performing in Los Angeles and on the road through out the year, putting together a new band, and writing a book about music.