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.

Karp is a singular musician whose ability to tap timeless emotions with such musical passion stands out. He emulates the power and soul of Springsteen, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Otis Redding, putting on one of the most entertaining show you’ve seen.

Peter Karp chosen One of the “75 Modern Blues and Blues Rock Artists You Must Hear” by Rock and Blues Muse Magazine!