Name: Don't You Marry No Railroad Man
Brand: JP Harris Dreadful Wind and Rain

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Limited edition

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2021-06-25

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JP Harris Dreadful Wind and Rain 

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Country / Americana

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Free Dirt

<p>Free Dirt is a Grammy-nominated independent record label founded by John Smith and Erica J. Haskell in 2006. Over the years, Free Dirt has released music from talented artists such as *Pokey LaFarge*, *Anna & Elizabeth*, *Hackensaw Boys*, *Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge* (Grammy-nominated), *Cahalen Morrison*, *Dori Freeman*, *JP Harris*, and *The Two Man Gentlemen Band*. In addition to their impressive roster, Free Dirt collaborates with PM Press to co-release spoken word and folk music, featuring lectures by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, as well as music from Chumbawamba, Leon Rosselson, Robb Johnson, and more. Furthermore, Free Dirt serves as a distributor for several other roots labels including Jalopy (Brooklyn), Big Muddy (St. Louis), Hi-Style (Nashville), and Mashed Potato (New Orleans).</p>

JP Harris has a secret: his name is actually Squash. Long before Harris became a well regarded honky-tonker, he used his childhood nickname while playing archaic old-time American tunes at underground fiddlers gatherings, engrossed in this punkish folk music world.

<i>Dont You Marry No Railroad Man</i>, his debut recording of traditional music under the moniker JP Harris Dreadful Wind and Rain, features ten tracks spanning the breadth of American old-time repertoire. Harris wades between ancient ballads that traveled from the British Isles to Appalachia like Barbry Ellen, to droning banjo ditties such as Hobart Smiths entrancing Last Chance, here played on one of Harris coveted homemade banjos. Harris also works as a serious carpenter which adds a unique authenticity to his versions of the classic House Carpenter and lesser known The Little Carpenter. Alongside Harris haunting vocals, the album prominently features the low-tuned fiddle and harmony singing of his longtime friend and Old Crow Medicine Show member Chance McCoy, who produced the record at his West Virginia studio in an old barn. On this sparse and arresting recording, Harris isnt mining his roots as a marketing pitch, he has the chops to back it up. In fact, this collection of songs made him who he is today. Welcome home Squash.

Don't You Marry No Railroad Man

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