- Blood From Stars, the latest album from Joe Henry, is available in record stores and online:
Buy online: Amazon.com
Listen online:
- Tour Photos: check out these great pictures of Joe and his band playing live at Sala Apolo in Barcelona, Spain on June 4, 2010.
- The Book of Rock: The new book by Steve Almond, Rock & Roll Will Save Your Life, features a whole chapter about Joe Henry.
Here's an excerpt from Rock & Roll Will Save Your Life:
- The funny thing about "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life" is the way it shifts from starry hit makers of the '80s to an aesthetic of quasi-handmade approachability — artists so far below the radar you need a magnifying glass to find them. The kind you could meet after a show and have a beer with, give them a hand with their equipment, regular people you might reach out and touch. The best, and best known, of these is Joe Henry, a quiet man who has pitched his tent in deepest left field, singing songs like "Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation" while coming at you from three or four musical/literary angles at once. If Almond were serious about his premise, he'd surely have to make a real case for why (and how) the people who are perfectly content with their Styx or Creed would want to take up someone as steeped in the elusive and unfamiliar as Henry. He's not readily approachable as an artist, however friendly and open he may be. His music is the antithesis of what practically everybody is used to, operating within a frame of reference so variegated, nuanced and layered it might as well be folk-bop from Mars.
- Facebook: Check out the official Joe Henry page on Facebook.
- Live Dates: Joe plays live in Europe on the following tour dates:
- 06/04/2010 – Barcelona, SPAIN – Sala Apolo
- 06/05/2010 – Las Palmas, SPAIN – Festival Arrecifes
- 06/08/2010 – Madrid, SPAIN – El Sol
- 06/09/2010 – Alicante, SPAIN – Palacio de Congressos
- 06/10/2010 – Elche, SPAIN – L'escortxador
- 06/12/2010 – London, ENGLAND – Purcell Room
- Song Cycle: Joe curates a Song Cycle at the Ludwigsburger Sclossfestspiele in Luwigsburg, Germany. And he plays on two different evenings as well:
- June 16, 2010 – Luwigsburg, GERMANY
Song Conversation One with Brad Mehldau - June 19, 2010 – Luwigsburg, GERMANY
Song Conversation One with Bill Frissell
- June 16, 2010 – Luwigsburg, GERMANY
- Tour Photos: live at the Blue Note in NYC - Joe and his band with special guests.
- Article: Tearing Down the Walls: In Praise of Joe Henry - Leonce Gaiter writes: "…it is beauty and loneliness, love and want … This is music for the fully human. It's good enough to hurt."
- Concert reviews:
- Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
"Apart from the shoes" - he gestured to his shiny footwear - "we're gonna try to keep the showbiz out of the show tonight." - SF Weekly - The Aladdin - Portland, OR
"The intensity, the volume and individual flourishes ... a vibrant, breathing body of sound." - The Oregonian
- Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
- Grammy winner! Congratulations to Joe Henry for winning his second ever Grammy Award. He won for producing Best Traditional Blues Album (Vocal or Instrumental): A Stranger Here by Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
- Blog post: read Joe's latest blog post — on the death of Willie Mitchell, the legendary producer, arranger, songwriter, and Hi Records founder.
- World Cafe Live: Listen to Joe on NPR's World Cafe Live.
Recorded on December 22nd, 2009 — setlist:- "The Man I Keep Hid"
- "Channel"
- "Bellwether"
- Video: Watch Joe and his band perform at KCRW in Los Angeles on the excellent Morning Becomes Eclectic radio program.
- Link: Check out the fantastic blog devoted to all-things-Joe: God Is In The Details
- Best Albums of 2009
- #1 - Joe Henry, Blood from Stars
God Is In The Details:
"Call this record 'the album that inspired a blog'..." - #1 - Joe Henry, Blood from Stars
Razing The Bar: "...a profound meditation on the intertwined natures of darkness, grace, and change. Joe Henry is the finest songwriter in contemporary American music." - #1 - Joe Henry, Blood from Stars
The Hurst Review:
"...in the romantic whimsy of the parlor crooner, in the electric mayhem of the blues, in the controlled chaos of jazz, in the strange and wonderful poetry of folk music."
- #1 - Joe Henry, Blood from Stars
- Interview with Joe Henry by Jason Schneider — Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority
- Razing The Bar: Artist of the Decade?
"His four albums this decade — Scar, Tiny Voices, Civilians, and Blood from Stars — ought to be festooned with 4.5, 5, 5, and 5 stars, respectively. And as much as it's difficult to improve on consecutive 5-star albums, I think he might have done so with Blood from Stars. It's a ridiculously great set of tunes..." [ read more ] - Paste Magazine interview: Catching Up With... Joe Henry
- New York Times: Blood From Stars
- Magnet Magazine: MP3 At 3PM: Joe Henry
- Entertainment Weekly: A- Blood From Stars Music Review by Greg Kot