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Jacket Full of Danger Jacket Full of Danger Jacket Full of Danger is Adam Green's fourth solo album, released in 2006. It revisits the string-laden melodrama of his second album "Friends of Mine", mostly abandoning the uptempo country folk sound of his previous release, "Gemstones". Lyrically, the album explores the same mournful terrain as "Gemstones" with Green's familiar obsession with drugs, surrealism and failed relationships. The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or