Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas[1] and became a central figure in the seminal no wave scene in New York City in the 1970s.
[2] He was also briefly a member of the Voidoids and played on many recordings by a wide range of artists, including Matthew Sweet, Syd Straw, Kip Hanrahan and John Zorn.
As part of Anton Fier's supergroup the Golden Palominos, he co-wrote the majority of the songs on the band's acclaimed second album, Visions of Excess.
One critic described Harris as a "seasoned campaigner from the late-1970s flowering of American postpunk",[3] while another called him "one of the most underrated guitarists" on the New York scene.
[5] Quine himself, however, declared Harris's work "tragically underrated -- he's so far advanced, way past me and people can't hear it".