Albums Of The Week: JP Harris | Shaving A Dead Man

Albums Of The Week: JP Harris | Shaving A Dead Man

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “As it drowns in toxic tsunamis of top-down propaganda and bottom-up ‘content,’ America needs its dissidents, punks, rebels, and rounders more than ever. What’s left of our free-thinking people are crying out for tradition keepers and cultural guerrillas, for throwbacks, iconoclasts, and mavericks. Made for these times, ergo: JP Harris, his […]

REVIEW: JP Harris "Dreadful Wind & Rain – Shaving a Dead Man"

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain – Shaving a Dead Man This vividly reimagined collection of mainly traditional songs doesn’t so much feel like it’s been curated by JP Harris, it feels much more like he’s gone out and summoned up these half-remembered songs, wresting them from ancient ghosts still haunting an abandoned, tumbledown cabin […]

ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Shaving A Dead Man,’ JP Harris Plays Intuitive Interpreter of an Old-Time Songbook

On JP Harris’s latest release, fans won’t encounter the tough-as-nails twang of albums past. They won’t hear the razor-edged, fork-tongued honky tonk that has soundtracked a decade of hard-ridden ballads and last-ditch elegies. Listeners will instead unearth something

JP Harris Embraces His Love of Appalachian Ballads with New LP ‘Shaving A Dead Man,’ Shares 5 Old-time Albums and Songs That Inspired Him (INTERVIEW) - Glide Magazine

For a singer-songwriter whose Instagram handle and website domain are literally I Love Honky Tonk, and who has largely built a fanbase over the last 15 years on exactly that kind of music, releasing a collection of old-time Appalachian tunes may seem like a head-scratcher. But JP Harris has been here before, notably with his 2021 album Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man, and this music is in his blood. Even as the kind of real-deal honky tonk and o…

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain “Shaving a Dead Man”

JP Harris serves up an engaging lesson in history from the American South. JP Harris is a songwriter, singer, guitarist, and banjo player; he is known for playing banjo in the traditional clawhammer style. Born in [...]