Chris Jeffries Homeless Romantic - Living in a Van (Ain't no Home)

The Homeless Romantic is a revolving cast of musicians who help bring my songwriting to life. The music is a disjointed poetic look the life of a 21st century vagabond.

Hopping freight trains, dumpster diving, and various forms of petty crime in order to continue traveling and living. The disappointment of a traditional lifestyle, the rejection of everything conformist and the experience over 10 years, going from apathy to empathy.

“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. This three-song, self-titled EP also conjures images of Chris Adolf’s pre-Bad Weather California project, the Love Letter Band, which, like Jeffries himself, was stripped down, slightly psychotic and teetering on the verge of its own classification. Although Jeffries calls on a myriad of influences, he is close to creating a sound that is uniquely his own — and right at home on any chain gang.”

–Andy Thomas, Westword

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 mandolin
Esme-vocals
James Frost Winn- trumpet
Josh Cole- Drums and samples
Rhyne Erde-Drums
Engineered by Justin Beaudry

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