JP Harris

Country singer Joshua Pless Harris aka JP Harris was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 13, 1983. He grew up with his parents in Apple Valley, California, before leaving home at the age of fourteen to lead a hobo life on the road. He was stationed in Oakland, where he discovered the punk scene, then in Arizona and Halifax, Vermont, where he stayed for ten years and worked at a variety of food-related jobs, finding his calling as a carpenter specializing in the restoration of historic sites. In 2011, he moved to Nashville and began his career as a musician. A banjo player in the old-time style, he and Chance McCoy of the Old Crow Medicine Show formed the band Tough Choices and recorded the album I'll Keep Calling for the Cow Island Music label, followed by Home Is Where the Hurt Is (2014) and an appearance at Bandit Town's Keep It Country festival in North Fork, California, with guest Red Simpson. He continued solo with the album Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing (2018), followed by Don't You Marry No Railroad Man (2021), for the Free Dirt Records label. In 2024, JP Harris Is a Trash Fire is released on Bloodshot Records.

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