Joshua Pless "JP" Harris (born February 13, 1983) is an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and clawhammer banjoist based in Nashville, Tennessee.
[1] After leaving home, he spent time in Oakland, California; he chose the Bay Area as the California punk bands of the 1980s and early 1990s had a major influence on his early musical development,[2] and later spent a year in Arizona where he worked as a sheep herder for a group of Navajo elders.
He worked as a sheet metal scrapper, orchard worker, farmer laborer, luthier, heavy equipment operator, logger, and mainly as an historic restoration carpenter.
Harris has continued to curate and produce recurring and one-off events for AmericanaFest, LR Baggs Acoustic Amplification, and the Newport Folk Festival.
Harris heard country music growing up in Alabama but didn't start playing the genre until he left home at age 14.