JC Harris

It's been a lonnnnnng time getting here. A long time ago, there was this kid who only wanted to work on fishing boats in Galway, IE but somehow wound up in America--getting most horribly corrupted by that devil rock and roll. My family had such high hopes for me.

So 'back in the day', I was all over the map as a musician. I started out as a founding member of the influential punk rock band Hüsker Du and then moved on to become a guitar and bass player for several Motown acts such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. Along the way I also played with many well-known jazz and gospel artists like Ramsey Lewis and The Winans and Broadway shows (Annie, Grease), wrote commercial scores (Lorzban: The Proven Way To Increase Crop Yields!) and even included a stint with the well-known public radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

But then I tried to go straight, Ossifer. I really did. And fifteen loooong years passed outside of the biz. My solo career began in 2000 with my rebirth as a professional musician. Since then, I have had the good fortune to be able to (finally) do the kinds of music that I always wanted to do, without the constraints of being a gun for hire. And now, with my trusty sidekick Gus ever at the ready, I shuttle back and forth between Dublin, IE and Seattle, WA, making the stuff you are sampling here; staying at only the swankest of Ramada Inns.

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