In short, J.P. Harris plays Country Music. Not Americana, not Roots, Folk.  He plays from the foundation of these styles, the music that has influenced four generations of songwriters.  Having hit the road at the young age of 14, he has been living the songs he writes for well over a decade. With a guitar always in his hands, JP began playing and singing early country standards around sheep-herding camps in the southwest, and later in hobo jungles and on freight trains across the country.

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) at home 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 and lead guitar in addition to fiddle duties throughout the album.)