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Homeless Romantic is a concept album. Conceived by : Chris Jeffries

Recorded in Hayward, CA 2014

Chris Jeffries-vocals organ piano percussion accordion guitar
Harlan Rollins-upright bass
Ben Andrews-violin
Toby Mahan-Sanchez-guitar
Salvatore Geloso- vocals
Chelsea Hendrix- vocals
Harlan Chancey- banjo
Mary Jane- vocals
A.J. - saxophone
Paul "mendlesohn" Girourd
Esme-vocals
James Frost Winn- trumpet
Josh Cole- Drums and samples
Rhyne Erde-Drums
Engineered by Justin Beaudry

This album is a poverty-stricken tribute to the red-headed stranger album and the songs could not be truer emotions from a long time traveling and doing despicable things. A beautiful look into a mind ridden with happy cartoons and screaming voices of doubt, fleeing far from the invisible prison of familiarity. These are songs about rambling through the night and gambling with your life, and the range of feeling growing and fuming in-between the cracks of the interstates, careterras, and bahnhofs. The glory of winning a fight with yourself.

If Lou Reed had lived in the '30s and had an affinity for moonshine instead of heroin, he would sound dangerously close to the delicate rootsiness of what Chris Jeffries is creating. Combining the swagger of Mr. Reed with the bad-luck living and roaring fingerpicking of folk stalwarts like Lead Belly, Jeffries creates a sound that could be plucked straight out of your granddaddy's Crosley

T Bone Burnett, Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, The Aquabats! (Friday morning middle school program), John Prine, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, The High Bar Gang, Ryan Adams, Chris Isaak, Lake Street Dive, The Waybacks, Bruce Cockburn, Tweedy, Blue Rodeo, The Lone Bellow, Rose's Pawn Shop, Buckwheat Zydeco, Deltron 3030 with The 3030 Orchestra, Parker Millsap, The Go To Hell Man Clan, Shelly Colvin, Dwight Yoakam, The McCrary Sisters, Caitlin Rose, The Apache Relay, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, Carlene Carter, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Whograss, Sarah Jarosz, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, Red Baraat, Dave Rawlings Machine, Poor Man's Whiskey (Friday morning middle school program), The Flatlanders Featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Jason Isbell, Social Distortion, Mavis Staples, Reckless Kelly, The Felice Brothers, Conor Brings Friends For Friday Featuring: Waxahatchee, The Good Life, Jonathan Wilson, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, Conor Oberst, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Jesse DeNatale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Moonalice, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Alison Brown Quintet, Bad Luck Jonathan, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Chuck Cannon, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, Robert Earl Keen, Rising Appalachia, Johnnyswim, Willie Watson, The Sam Chase, Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars: Kate York, Striking Matches, Nikki Lane, Shawn Colvin, Tony Joe White, Buddy Miller & Friends, The Mastersons, Peter Rowan's Twang An' Groove, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Chris Smither, Robbie Fulks, Built To Spill, Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun, Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester, Evolfo, Holler Down The Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute To the Masters (Dickens, Hellman, Reed, Scruggs, Seeger, Watson & Winchester), Cibo Matto, Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express 'Strings In The Temple', Hot Rize Featuring Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers, Yo La Tengo, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, Sun Kil Moon, Rosanne Cash, Malawi Mouse Boys, Emmylou Harris, The Time Jumpers Featuring Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, Dawn Sears and Ranger Doug Green
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