Clear Smoke Vinyl LP
Clear Smoke Vinyl LP
CD
JP Harris - Shaving A Dead Man JP Harris
Clear Smoke Vinyl LP, Reverse board jacket, printed inner sleeve
Produced by Chance McCoy (Old Crow Medicine Show), Shaving A Dead Man embraces and exuberates in old-time Appalachian folk music. Featuring dark Appalachian fiddle & banjo, Americana gothic drones, and whimsically macabre artwork. The repertoire is heirloom, but newcomers to the old-time genre will hear a hypnotic snap & sway in the silvery plunk of JP Harris’s banjo, a spectral, bluesy emotion in McCoy’s fiddle, & songs with lyrics that conjure something mythical, mysterious, and sometimes murderous.
“This album offers an identifiable element to people who want to access old-time, not necessarily through Smithsonian field recordings. I'm not just some museum-quality reproduction piece. Planting this flag in the mud is saying that I’m still a fringe element, even if I am a traditional roots musician. It makes it identifiable to the next generation of little weird music kids like me.” - JP Harris
Track List
Side A
1. Say Darling Say
2. The Three Babes
3. Hog Eyed Man
4. The Boatman
5. Poor Robin
Side B
1. I Truly Understand
2. Pretty Saro
3. Roustabout
4. Sweet Talk
5. Hang Me
CD
1. Say Darling Say
2. The Three Babes
3. Hog Eyed Man
4. The Boatman
5. Poor Robin
6. I Truly Understand
7. Pretty Saro
8. Roustabout
9. Sweet Talk
10. Hang Me