Dean Harlem clearly believes that making music is his role in life – Dean Harlem is originally from Donetsk, Ukraine but his family emigrated to the US when he was 4. He grew up in New Jersey but left home at 18 to hitchhike across the US to busk and see the country. He would sometimes play for 5 hrs a day to make enough money to keep going, at one point after getting a car, he was sleeping in his vehicle in Walmart parking lots.
He’s now living in Nashville where he landed a residency at Eric Church’s new megabar Chief’s on Broadway where he plays all original music every Sunday and Wednesday – a rarity for Broadway which mainly features cover bands for tourists.
Today’s song is the title track from his new EP – it’s a classic tale of getting out of the cities and back to the more wholesome surrounding’s of Country roots.
