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Artist: Garland Jeffreys: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock     Discography:      Escape Artist    Year: 2007    Tracks: 14      Wild in the Streets: Best of 1977-1983    Year: 2002    Tracks: 20      Wildlife Dictionary    Year: 1997    Tracks: 13      Don't Call Me Buckwheat    Year: 1992    Tracks: 13 Born and raised in Brooklyn, vocaliser, ballad jehovah, and guitarist Garland Jeffreys began his career acting in Manhattan nightclubs as a solo act in 1966 after attending college at Syracuse University as an art major, where he became friends with Lou Reed. After graduation, he played out a short clip in Italy poring over nontextual matter ahead coming back to Manhattan to further his education at New York's Institute of Arts spell out working with several urban center bands, including Train and Romeo. After forming a mathematical group called Grinder's Switch in 1969, they released one album, Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch, earlier breakage up in 1970. Jeffreys presently returned to playing as a solo do, playing small Manhattan clubs until sign language with Atlantic Records in 1973, where he released his self-titled debut album later that yr. The album, which featured songs about New York street animation, aligned him with Reed and other early tinder careen pioneers and spurred the hit "Violent in the Streets," which helped him post out his place on the musical map. The song was so successful on the then rising FM radio that he recorded it once more in 1977 for his s solo album, Ghostwriter Writer (his first for A&M Records), on which he explored topics including interracial love affair ("I May Not Be Your Kind") and mandatary busing ("Why-O"). Jeffreys returned a year afterwards with One Eyed Jack, and recorded one more album for A&M in 1979, American language Boy & Girl. After all-encompassing mid-'70s tours with reggae artists like Toots & the Maytals and Jimmy Cliff, Jeffreys jumped to Epic Records to track record trey more albums, 1980's Escape Artist, 1982's Rock'n'roll Adult, and 1983's Grit for Love; for a songster as prolific as Jeffreys, it was ironical that his only chart single from geological period was a cover of ? & the Mysterians' "96 Tears," which featured a pumping organ and a unique agreement. After a long absence, he recorded his 1992 debut for RCA Records, Don't Call Me Buckwheat, which offered such knock-down statements or so race matters and racism as "Welcome to the World." He followed with Wildlife Dictionary in 1997. A single-disc overview covering the eld 1977 to 1983, Godforsaken in the Streets, was issued by Raven in 2002. I'm Alive was released in 2006 by Universal International.