New York City Images As Album/CD Cover Art #25: Garland Jeffreys "The King Of In Between" (2011)

Artist: Garland Jeffreys
Title: The King of In Between
Released: 2011
Cover photo by: Anton Corbijn

The New York City oriented album/CD cover art we feature in this series is usually at least a few years old and in some cases several decades old. Today we feature something brand new from a man who is no stranger to singing the praises of the Big Apple: the latest from Garland Jeffreys. Not only does the CD feature a stark b&w cover photo taken at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard & Malcom X Boulevard in Harlem, the CD also features two very New York City flavored songs: "Coney Island Winter," and "Roller Coaster Town." You can read a recent, praise-filled review of the disc from the New Yorker HERE.

Of course, you can check out samples of each track on the CD and then, if you choose, purchase a copy for your own music collection over at Amazon.com, or better yet, you can listen and purchase a copy directly from Garland's website at Garland Jeffreys.com.

Garland Jeffreys "Coney Island Winter"

Our friend Doug Webb, who does the website Wild In The Streets.info for Garland Jeffreys, has assembled some decades-old video footage and still photos of Coney Island into a video for Garland's new single, "Coney Island Winter."

Per Garland's website:

“Coney Island Winter” was directed and assembled by Doug Webb who created Garland's Wild in the Streets fan site and opens with footage from the 1952 short film documentary "Coney Island, U.S.A." It also includes samples from a 1991 episode of PBS’s American Experience ("Coney Island") and the evocative 2010 short film "Coney Island Dream", filmed and edited by Joshua Brown.

“The video captures the desolation, but also the allure, the fantasy and the humor of Coney Island that still fills my memories,” says Garland.