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Jody Harris

Jody Harris

Jody Harris has been played on NTS shows including The One Glove Breakfast Show w/ Macca, with Mr. Control first played on 30 September 2016.

Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was a central figure in the influential No Wave scene in New York City. One esteemed critic described Harris as a "seasoned campaigner from the late-70's flowering of American postpunk", while another called him "one of the most underrated guitarists" on the New York scene. He was a key member of a number of bands that sprang from the seminal No Wave movement, including the Contortions, the Raybeats, and the Golden Palominos. He has also recorded as a solo artist and with guitarist Robert Quine. In 1977, he joined Quine in a band backing rock critic Lester Bangs on Bangs' Let It Blurt album, produced by John Cale. Harris also was briefly a member of the Voidoids and has played on many recordings by a wide range of artists, including Matthew Sweet, Syd Straw, Kip Hanrahan and John Zorn.

With Quine, he composed all the music on their collaborative album, Escape, as well as co-writing virtually all the Raybeats' material. He also composed all the songs and instrumentals on his one solo album, except for one song co-written with Don Christensen. As part of Anton Fier's supergroup the Golden Palominos, he co-wrote the majority of the songs on their acclaimed second album, Visions of Excess.

Robert Palmer, writing in the New York Times in 1987, praised "the luminous clarity" of Harris's lead guitar work for the Golden Palominos, while the Village Voice's Robert Christgau obliquely criticized what he called Harris's "weakness for the genre exercise" in his solo work. Quine himself called Harris "tragically underrated -- he's so far advanced, way past me and people can't hear it".

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Jody Harris

Jody Harris has been played on NTS shows including The One Glove Breakfast Show w/ Macca, with Mr. Control first played on 30 September 2016.

Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was a central figure in the influential No Wave scene in New York City. One esteemed critic described Harris as a "seasoned campaigner from the late-70's flowering of American postpunk", while another called him "one of the most underrated guitarists" on the New York scene. He was a key member of a number of bands that sprang from the seminal No Wave movement, including the Contortions, the Raybeats, and the Golden Palominos. He has also recorded as a solo artist and with guitarist Robert Quine. In 1977, he joined Quine in a band backing rock critic Lester Bangs on Bangs' Let It Blurt album, produced by John Cale. Harris also was briefly a member of the Voidoids and has played on many recordings by a wide range of artists, including Matthew Sweet, Syd Straw, Kip Hanrahan and John Zorn.

With Quine, he composed all the music on their collaborative album, Escape, as well as co-writing virtually all the Raybeats' material. He also composed all the songs and instrumentals on his one solo album, except for one song co-written with Don Christensen. As part of Anton Fier's supergroup the Golden Palominos, he co-wrote the majority of the songs on their acclaimed second album, Visions of Excess.

Robert Palmer, writing in the New York Times in 1987, praised "the luminous clarity" of Harris's lead guitar work for the Golden Palominos, while the Village Voice's Robert Christgau obliquely criticized what he called Harris's "weakness for the genre exercise" in his solo work. Quine himself called Harris "tragically underrated -- he's so far advanced, way past me and people can't hear it".

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Mr. Control
Jody Harris
Tellus1983
Pardon My Clutch
Jody Harris, Robert Quine
Infidelity1981
Termites Of 1938
Jody Harris, Robert Quine
Infidelity1981
Yes It Is
Robert Quine, Jody Harris
NYC Records1995