Playing Luck Reunion as part of the Western AF showcase. He's led quite a life. Per Wikipedia:
Harris was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1983. He spent much of his early life between Montgomery and Dadeville, AL, where his relatives had lived since the Revolutionary War. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in heavy construction. When he was seven, his family moved to Apple Valley, California, and later to Las Vegas. When Harris was fourteen he left home after finishing the 8th grade.
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, and later spent a year in Arizona where he worked as a sheep herder for a group of Navajo elders. Throughout this time, Harris freighthopped across the US, eventually finding his way to the town of Halifax, Vermont, where he lived for over a decade. He worked as a sheet metal scrapper, orchard worker, farmer laborer, luthier, heavy equipment operator, logger, and mainly as an historic restoration carpenter. He moved to Nashville, TN in 2011. From the time he was sixteen until his relocation to Nashville, he lived in various remote cabins without electricity or running water for nearly 13 years.
Wow. He has embraced country music, especially the old school music of George Jones and Waylon Jennings. Here is his version of the Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn song "You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly" with Nikki Lane. They did a live version of it, too.
Here is his Western AF performance of "When I Quit Drinkin'"
He did a KEXP live session here.
This is off his latest album.
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