Peter Karp - Jersey Town

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2026
Time:42:06 
Size:97,5 MB 
Label:Self-Released
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Mojo Jam - 4:07
 2. Baby Hold Tight - 3:27
 3. House Full of Love - 3:12
 4. That Smile - 3:51
 5. The Man I Used to Be - 4:11
 6. Faith - 3:48
 7. Tooth and Nail - 3:19
 8. Fate Is a Train - 2:52
 9. This Road - 4:36
10. What Has Happened Here - 3:13
11. Without You - 5:24

In the 1960s, the rhythms of northern New Jersey pulsed hard with urgency. Perhaps it was because of its dense population of first generation European immigrants getting thrown together with the mass migration of Latinos from South America, Mexico, and Cuba, combined with the surge of African Americans who sojourned their way north from the southern states in the nation’s post–WWII second Great Migration. It was here, in North Jersey, in the grayness, grit, din, and relentless rush-hour traffic, amidst cold and crumbling rusted steel bridges and dark overpasses, beneath looming loading cranes that towered like prehistoric skeletons over billowing refineries and post-apocalyptic swamplands, at the last chance and final stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, that Peter Karp was born.
This set pays a blues homage to Peter Karp’s home state: New Jersey. Land of Sinatra, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Nancy Sinatra, Young Rascals, Billy Falcon, Al DiMeola, Count Basie, Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge), Bon Jovi, Donald Fagan, Pat DiNizio (Smithereens), Connie Francis, Cissy & Whitney Houston, Ricky Nelson, Joe Lynn Turner, Sarah Vaughn, Tom Verlaine, Dionne Warwick, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paul Simon, a guy named Springsteen, Debbie Harry (Blondie) by way of FL & Patti Smith by way of Chicago. My point?
Karp is in good company. He has hard acts to follow. Let him toss the dice. His 11 tracks on his 13th LP, Jersey Town (Drops April 17/Rose Cottage Records/42:05), explore loss, love, faith, fate, murder, hope & desperation, with support from guitarists Rick Vito, Sue Foley, & Mark Johnson & an endorsement from Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor.

Jersey Town