JP Harris @ Dogtown

etails
JP Harris at Dogtown Fri Oct 25
$12 advance, $15 day of show
Get tickets to see JP with his HOT band now at https://www.townvu.com/dogtownroadhouse/ordering

J.P. Harris and his band play Country Music. Not “Americana,” not “Roots,” “Folk,” or any other number of monikers used to describe a slew of spin-off genres; he plays from the foundation of these styles, the music that has influenced four generations of songwriters. In a world where prefixes have been added to the term “Country,” JP simply sticks to the old-fashioned sounds that have called to him. JP’s life has been full of color, travel, hardship, and grace from the day he first saw the world. After more than six generations in Alabama, his family would leave seeking work, first to California and then on to Nevada. He left home on foot at the age of 14, traveling via thumb and freight train, living the next 4 years mostly from a backpack, tarp, a bedroll. Eventually landing in the northeast, he worked as a farm laborer, equipment operator, lumberjack, luthier, and carpenter.
In the summer of 2011, after two years of touring without much in the way of recorded music, Harris made a trip to the sweltering heat of south Louisiana. In an old Cajun cook shack, he and a few pals pounded out an album in three days, and shortly after its completion, he made the move to Nashville. JP released his all-original debut “I’ll Keep Calling” in May of 2012 on Cow Island Music. Shortly after its release, without the aid of publicists or a large label’s bankroll, it won “Best Country Album of 2012″ from The Nashville Scene, and the same honor at the Independent Music Awards.
His latest album “Home Is Where The Hurt Is” (produced by Harris, guitarist Adam Meisterhans, and engineer Justin Francis) was recorded and mixed at Ronnie’s Place, formerly the personal studio of Ronnie Milsap, in Nashville. It features not your typical Music Row studio musicians, but young local players, many of whom have spent thousands of miles on the road in JP’s backing band The Tough Choices. Lending a hand on the album vocally is friend and local Indie-Country star Nikki Lane, as well as long-time friend Chance McCoy, singer and guitarist of Old Crow Medicine Show (McCoy also took rhythm guitar and fiddle duties throughout the album.)
Rolling Stone named JP Harris one of the “Country Tours Not to Miss,” as well as one of “21 Must-See Country Acts at SXSW.” When he isn’t touring or recording, JP can usually be found repairing an old house, splitting wood in his backyard, or digging through the trash for useable refuse. Fortunately for JP’s many Southwest Virginia fans, he can be found with his band at Dogtown Roadhouse in Floyd, Virginia on Friday, October 25.