JP Harris & The Tough Choices to Play NYC November 19th

JP Harris and The Tough Choices play Country music that sets out to right the wrongs done to a music so classically and quintessentially American. When The Tough Choices began, there were two rules: keep it country, and keep it simple. They have done both, yet still weave pedal steel leads and genuine guitar solos with the cool calm of a "Spaghetti-Western Clint Eastwood." They draw on influences ranging from early Western Swing to rough-edged Truck Driving ballads; Bob Wills all the way to Merle Haggard. Think of them as the perfect gentlemen to bring home for Christmas, if only you could get the stains off their Wranglers and the cheap whiskey off their breath.

Having hit the road at the young age of 14, JP Harris has been living the songs he writes for well over a decade. With a guitar always in his hands, he 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. Living and working the past ten years as carpenter, logger, apple-picker, banjo-builder, busker, and a slew of other low-paid, dirty-handed trades in rural Vermont, he decided to take to the road once again as the neon and stage lights beckoned relentlessly.

With no more than a few months at age twelve of music instruction, JP Harris is truly a self-taught player and songwriter. His songs are simple recollections of the many paths he's trod; heartbroken & heartbreaker, gentleman & lowlife, home-bound working man & listless wanderer. With a rare ear for authenticity, JP pens Honky Tonk ballads to upbeat barroom anthems, maintaining a simplicity and sharp wit found in a road-worn author.

Where: Hill Country Live NYC
When: November 19th
Time: 9pm
NO Cover

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