Garland Jeffreys - The Answer [RCA PD49144] {Germany 1991}

Garland Jeffreys - The Answer
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Label/Cat#: RCA PD49144 | Country/Year: Germany 1991
Genre: Blues Rock, Synth Pop | Hoster: FP/UL

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Garland Jeffreys - The Answer

Label: RCA
Catalog#: PD 49144
Format: CD, Maxi-Single
Country: Germany
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Blues Rock, House, Synth-pop

Tracklist:

1 The Answer (7" Edit) 3:28
2 The Answer (7" Radio Mix) 3:48
3 Murder Jubilee 3:58
4 The Answer (Extended Club Mix) 6:28

Notes:

Additional production & remix by Justin Strauss for Just Right / Def Mix productions.

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Garland-Jeffreys-The-Answer/release/731606





Garland Jeffreys (born 1943, Brooklyn, New York) is a part African-American, and Puerto Rican American, singer and songwriter, transversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul.
Jeffreys is from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He majored in art history at Syracuse University where he met Lou Reed, before The Velvet Underground became active.[1] In 1966, Jeffreys began to play in Manhattan nightclubs including Gerde's Folk City, The Bitter End, Gaslight, Kenny's Castaways and later Reno Sweeney, where he began to explore racially conscious themes in his work, sometimes utilizing blackface masks and a rag doll named Ramon in performance. Jeffreys played guitar on John Cale's 1969 debut solo album Vintage Violence and contributed the song "Fairweather Friend". In 1969 he founded Grinder's Switch with Woodstock-area musicians including pianist Stan Szelest, guitarist Ernie Corallo, and percussionist Sandy Konikoff. Lew Merenstein produced this one album before the band dissolved in 1970.

In 1973, he released his first solo album, Garland Jeffreys, on Atlantic Records. Around the same time Atlantic also released a single, "Wild in the Streets", that was not included on the album. Jeffreys wrote the song after hearing about a pre-teen rape and murder in the Bronx. Dr. John played clavinet and helped arrange the song, with backing from guitarist David Spinozza, drummer Rick Marotta, the Brecker Brothers on horns and David Peel on background vocals. The track received airplay on the progressive FM album-oriented rock stations, and has become one of his best-known songs.

"Wild in the Streets" has become something of an unofficial anthem for the skate community and been covered by several musicians, including:

The Circle Jerks, on their album Wild in the Streets
Chris Spedding, on the album Hurt
British Lions, on their album British Lions
Hot Water Music, on the album Til the Wheels Fall Off
Hurriganes, on Fortissimo

In 1977 Garland recorded his Ghost Writer album for A&M Records, with "Wild in the Streets" included on side two. All the tracks are autobiographical, encompassing bittersweet tales about coming of age as an artist in the big city ("Ghost Writer"), of racial separatism ("Why-O"), of interracial romance ("I May Not Be Your Kind"), and of overcoming conflict at home ("Cool Down Boy").[citation needed]

The next years saw a string of albums, five within five years, and the release of the perennial European radio favorite "Matador" which charted in the top five of a number of countries.[2] This burst of productivity culminated with the criminally underrated Guts for Love, a meditation on the challenges of monogamy and fidelity. After a long hiatus, much of it spend woodshedding, reading and researching, Jeffreys released Don't Call Me Buckwheat, devoted to the complexities of race in America. The title was triggered by an incident at Shea Stadium where Jeffreys was enjoying the game and feeling carefree. He stood to go get a hotdog when a voice shouted "Hey buckwheat, sit down" The casual epithet was a jolt and it spurred a number of memorable songs including "Don't Call Me Buckwheat, " "I Was Afraid of Malcolm," "Racial Repertoire." In February 1992, Jeffreys' recording of "Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll" (RCA PB49171), spent one week at #72 in the UK Singles Chart.[3]

Jeffreys was featured in the 2003 documentary The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the fourth installment of the documentary film series The Blues produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explored the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Jeffreys was also featured on the cover of Beyond Race Magazine in February 2007. wikipedia

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