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Garland Jeffreys returns after a 13-year break

By Franklin Soults

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 10, 2011

Over the past few decades, a number of aging pop musicians have shown they can claim “now’’ with a different kind of urgency than they did in their respective heydays, but perhaps no senior musician has demonstrated the urgency of 2011 with as much youthful fierceness as 68-year-old Garland Jeffreys on “The King of In Between.’’ On Saturday, Jeffreys comes to Johnny D’s bearing the album’s uncommonly alive combination of R&B, folk, and rock and roll, not to mention of blues, reggae, and hints of jazz.

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