[Cover photo credit to Libby Danforth]
Nashville-based Country artist JP Harris is hitting the road this Fall for his Bloodshot Records debut, JP Harris Is A Trash Fire, produced by JD McPherson. Harris is also “someone you’ll find working on Nashville’s historic homes, riding and fixing old motorcycles, or picking through scrap piles for useable refuse.”
It was through JP Harris’ concurrent line of work fixing historic homes that he met another singer with a penchant for old Americana music, JD McPherson. The two became friends and would eventually, through many twists and turns, enter a studio in Nashville to record JP Harris Is A Trash Fire.
Over the course of nine months in 2023, they recorded a Country album of Harris’ originals, avoiding any attempt to pigeon-hole a song into any subgenre of country music. Featuring the guest vocals of Erin Rae, The Watson Twins, Shovels & Rope, and producer JD McPherson himself, the record is “equal parts satire, reflection, and apology to those that would listen.”
Moving to Nashville in 2011, Harris would go on to record 2014’s Home Is Where The Hurt Is, 2018’s Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing, and 2021’s Appalachian banjo-centric side project album, Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man, under the moniker “JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain.”
JP HARRIS ON TOUR
FR 10/25: Lafayette LA // Blackpot Festival & Cookoff
TH 11/7: Raleigh NC // The Pourhouse
FR 11/8: Lancaster PA // West Art
SA 11/9: Trumansburg NY // Sweet Land Farm
SU 11/10: Brooklyn NY // Skinny Dennis
TU 11/12: Kingston NY // Tubby’s
WE 11/13: Hudson NY // Half Moon
TH 11/14: Gloucester MA // The Cut
SA 11/16: Brattleboro VT // The Stone Church
SU 11/17: Providence RI // Alchemy
TU 11/19: Hagerstown MD // Hub City Vinyl
WE 11/20: Elkton MD // Elkton Music Hall
TH 11/21: Richmond VA // Star Hill Beer Hall
SA 11/23: Floyd VA // Dogtown Roadhouse
SU 11/24: Charlotte NC // The Thirsty Beaver
TH 12/12: Eunice LA // Lakeview Park w/ Kelli Jones and The Cajun Allstars
FR 12/13: Austin TX // Sagebrush
SA 12/14: San Antonio TX // The Lonesome Rose
WE 12/18: Houston TX // Danelectro’s
TH 12/19: Ft. Worth TX // Tulips supporting Greyhounds
SA 12/21: Kansas City MO // Knuckleheads
SU 12/22: Tulsa OK // Mercury Lounge
MO 12/23: Little Rock AR // Whitewater Tavern w/ Dylan Earl
