​JP Harris (from the album JP Harris is a Trash Fire

​JP Harris (from the album JP Harris is a Trash Fire

​JP Harris (from the album JP Harris is a Trash Fire available on Bloodshot Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Beginning in the early 2010’s, JP Harris has released a string of albums that secure his role as the sole savior of Honky Tonk sounds, and its lifestyle. Starting the cycle with lonely lover trucker tales in I’ll Keep Calling (2012) JP Harris continued telling tales of possibly good love definitely going wrong with Home is Where the Hurt Is (2014). JP Harris wrote the songs of Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing (2018) from a personal perspective, making sure to champion his work as a builder in Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man (2021). For album number five, JP Harris includes all the emotions and mistakes of his previous releases, making sure to look the man in the mirror right in the eye as he relates stories of those fellow humans passing by outside his window as he rolls down the highway, or relaxes in his tub, much like the cover art for the recent release, JP Harris is a Trash Fire. 
 
A wriggling guitar lead is the pied piper entering in the album as JP Harris makes a situational based-decision citing that ‘there ain’t one mile of good road ‘tween Knoxville and Memphis, so I think I’ll stay a while in Caroline’ as the “Old Fox” comes knocking for a place to spend the night. JP Harris freely admits to “Dark Thoughts” using a guitar lick as a whip crack while he tenderly whispers his heartache into “Charms & Letters” and pens a letter to Memphis Magnolia, a mystery lady on a train, and a woman hanging out by the tracks in the summer heat for “Write It All Down”. The musical backing for JP Harris is a Trash Fire is the soundtrack for Honky Tonk heaven. The album heads out of “East Alabama” and sings a song for “Barbara Dee” as JP Harris saunters into the title claim with “Trash Fire” where he envisions a future where all the kids will recall a ‘honky tonk legend from back in the day’ who ‘sold out coffeehouse all over the world’ and sings with the voice of age in “Long in the Tooth”, exiting JP Harris is a Trash Fire covering Devo and singing the praises of a “Beautiful World”. (by Danny McCloskey) 
 
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