J. P. Whipple is a barefoot vagabond whose errant rambles have taken him through the Great American West picking up songs along the side of the highways, in the mountain forests, the rivers, canyons and down broken alleyways. He grows them in small notebooks and when they mature he translates them through banjo, Dobro or accordion and then brings them to audiences throughout the US and Europe. He is currently self-releasing his tenth album, “Thinking of you… Staring at the Power Lines”. His eleventh album, “Moab”, is due out in the fall of 2014. He is also a prolific writer. The author of the epic poem, The Toilet, in which the Earth judges and punishes the dead, Le Tour, a memoir of his ill-fated second European tour and The Holy Book of Joel about a messiah who preaches under the I-80 overpass. He is currently finishing a new memoir on his experiences an itinerant musician traveling the states and living out of a Toyota pickup. Vagabond Roots from the Dark Side of the American Dream. http://barefootjohn.com