ANNOUNCING JP HARRIS' DREADFUL WIND & RAIN, DEBUT ALBUM "DON'T YOU MARRY NO RAILROAD MAN"

Country singer JP Harris announces his old time side project debut, under the moniker JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain, “Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man.”

For many years prior to his country career, JP built and played fretless old time banjos, finding community in the somewhat-forgotten world of Appalachian stringband music. One of the enduring friendships from those days is with dear friend Chance McCoy, who engineered, produced, and fiddled on this album, at his homestead in the remote mountains of southeastern West Virginia in the summer of 2020.

This album will be officially released June 25th via Free Dirt Records, available on all formats. LP/vinyl is limited to 500 hand numbered, gold foil stamped copies, and includes two exclusive bonus tracks with the download card, unavailable anywhere else. Preorder while they’re still hot off the press!

The first single and music video is up now on The Boot filmed at Cook’s Old Mill in Greenville, WV. In JP’s words: “this is old time music; it’s not polished or pitch-perfect, it’s not tailored for radio airplay...this is me at my truest and rawest, singing songs of death, deceit, and the devil from the 18th and 19th centuries, playing an archaic and outdated style of banjo. Some of y’all may like it and some of y’all won’t, but it’s honest.”