{"id":117315,"date":"2014-10-08T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-river-brewery-hosts-hit-country-band-saturday\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:42:38","slug":"dolores-river-brewery-hosts-hit-country-band-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-river-brewery-hosts-hit-country-band-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores River Brewery hosts hit country band Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy Joshua Black Wilkins<br><br>JP Harris and the Tough Choices are a classic country music band with a huge following. They play the Dolores River Brewery Saturday night. Cover is $10.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JP Harris and the Tough Choices have impressive musical chops and a large following. Their current tour was just named one of the \u201c20 Must See Country Tours\u201d of Fall 2014 by Rolling Stone Country. They are promoting their latest album, Home Is Where The Hurt Is, which features Chance McCoy (Old Crow Medicine Show), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), and Nikki Lane.<\/p>\n

An online bio tells the story of this band. In short, J.P. Harris plays country music, not \u201cAmericana,\u201d not \u201cRoots,\u201d \u201cFolk,\u201d or any other number of monikers used to describe a slew of spin-off genres.<\/p>\n

JP simply sticks to the old-fashioned sounds that have called to him. His Alabama roots shaped his down-to-Earth attitude. On his own at age 14, Harris traveled by freight train to the Northeast where he worked as a farm laborer, equipment operator, lumberjack, luthier, and carpenter.<\/p>\n

He taught himself music, and his sincere country style based on life experience began drawing crowds. In the summer of 2011, he and a group of friends banged out an album in three days in an old Cajun cook house in south Louisiana. Then it was on to Nashville.<\/p>\n

\u201cJP is a truly self-made musician,\u201d says his publicist Jake Lanier. \u201cThe praise of the crowd mixed with the glow of the stage lights became an intoxicating and overpowering cocktail he can not live without.\u201d<\/p>\n

His debut release \u201cI\u2019ll Keep Calling\u201d won Best Country Album of 2012 from The Nashville Scene.<\/p>\n

When he isn\u2019t touring, JP can usually be found repairing an old house, splitting wood in his backyard, or digging through the trash for usable refuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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