Jerry Joseph Returns Witt New Studio Album ‘Baby, You’re The Man Who Would Be King’ Out 9/29

Today Jerry Joseph has announced that he will be releasing his new studio album, Baby, You’re The Man Who Would Be King (King)on September 29, 2023 on Cosmo Sex School Records. Recorded in NYC and produced by Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, the album features a band made up of some of New York’s best players. 

Ambel curated a band of stellar musicians Jeremy Chatzky on Bass, Phil Cimino on Drums, Charlie Giordano on Hammond Organ, Wurlitzer Electric Piano & Accordion and himself on Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion & Harmony Vocals with Casey Neil on Harmony, Joe Flood on Fiddle, Mary Lee Kortes on Harmony Vocals, and Cody Nilsen on Pedal Steel, adding their skills to a song each. The album was mostly recorded in a week with Mario Viele engineering after which Ambel added some additional recording from his home studio, Evie’s Terrace.

Written in a vintage camping trailer parked in Joseph’s Portland driveway in the midst of the pandemic and recorded in Ambel’s Brooklyn studio in the summer of 2021, the nine songs on King are a bit of a mystery, and a bit painful, for Joseph to reflect on. “These for me, were a different collection of songs,” Joseph acknowledges. ”If there was a theme, it was to focus on simplicity – lord knows I can be … er… verbose -, often ending with a head scratch and ‘what the hell is this song about’ upon listening to the final versions. In the end, there’s a lot more truth and vulnerability here than I’m willing to publicly concede.”