JP Harris has been writing, singing, and touring his own varied brand of country music for more than fifteen years. Even within the rapidly growing world of “underground” country music, Harris still considers himself an outsider, content to inhabit a gray area where punk rock ethos, avant garde aesthetic, and the workingman’s ballad mingle.Toeing the line and testing the bounds, he has amassed a unique amalgamation of fans across the US and the globe. Born in 1983 in Montgomery, AL, Harris proceeded to live a colorful life, leaving home at the age of fourteen via Greyhound bus and later vying for the faster freight trains that criss-cross America. Working as a logger, heavy equipment operator, seasonal farm worker, and occasional contraband handler, he finally settled on his now nearly twenty five year trade as a historic restoration carpenter. Spending most of his teens and twenties living in relatively remote cabins and camps, mostly without electricity or running water, his hardscrabble day-to-day life informed his connection to traditional music. Harris is also well versed in old time banjo and ballad singing, a passion of over twenty years, which he infrequently performs under the moniker “JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain.” JP has resided in Nashville, TN since 2011, where he can be found fixing old houses, riding old motorcycles, or picking through the garbage for useable refuse.