Peter Karp – Jersey Town

‘Jersey Town’ is a gritty, fierce homage to the state he was born in and the place where he honed his storytelling skills and aggressive guitar chops

Peter Karp – Jersey Town
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Independent
Release: 2026

Release date: April 17, 2026

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.

Website: https://www.peterkarp.com/home

Tracks:
01. MOJO JAM (special guest Dennis Gruenling)
02. BABY HOLD TIGHT
03. HOUSE FULL OF LOVE
04. THAT SMILE (special guest Sue Foley)
05. THE MAN I USED TO BE
06. FAITH
07. TOOTH AND NAIL (special guest Rick Vito)
08. FATE IS A TRAIN
09. THIS ROAD (special guest Rick Vito)
10. WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?
11. WITHOUT YOU (special guests John Ginty and Mark Johnson)