Jeffreys wrote the song after hearing about a pre-teen rape and murder in the Bronx. Around the same time Atlantic also released a single, "Wild in the Streets," that was not included on the album. In 1973, he released his first solo album, Garland Jeffreys, on Atlantic Records.
Lewis Merenstein, producer of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, produced this one album before the band dissolved in 1970. In 1969 he founded Grinder's Switch with Woodstock-area musicians including pianist Stan Szelest, guitarist Ernie Corallo, and percussionist Sandy Konikoff.
Jeffreys played guitar on John Cale's 1969 debut solo album Vintage Violence and contributed the song "Fairweather Friend". 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. He majored in art history at Syracuse University where he met Lou Reed, before The Velvet Underground became active. Jeffreys is from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, of African American and Puerto Rican American heritage. Garland Jeffreys (born Jin Brooklyn, New York) is an American, singer and songwriter, traversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul.
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