Jeffrey Lewis - the neurotic from New York

For New York songwriter Jeffrey Lewis, success is as scary as failure. Andrew Purcell meets himA few years ago, Jeffrey Lewis wrote a song called Sal's Pizza Has Sold Out to the Yuppie Scum, in which he complained about the rising cost of a takeaway in the East Village. New York's "anti-folk" scene had by then grown too big for squat parties and moved to the Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A, and although Lewis was the main draw at open mic nights there (alongside the Moldy Peaches), the extra 50 cents ...

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