Chris Jeffries Homeless Romantic - Napping in the Noontime

Napping in the noontime
by some quaint stream
birds singing songs
way high up in oak trees
my hand reaches for yours
trembles and it shakes
and crashes like so many ocean waves
twenty more minutes of this my sleeping paradise
twenty more minutes before I wake up alone, cold and outside
I was dreaming of you all scared and lost
all the people passed you by on the street and nobody bothered to stop and talk
your hand it reached out for mine with a haunting smile
you grabbed my coat and dragged my down to the ground
then I woke up in a place I had never seen

and spent the rest of my day trying to figure out what did that mean?
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 travelling 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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