I swore off —and some time ago— the notion of music videos as they came to be known: it always being a perilous proposition to wed images for promotional purposes to music —the former meaning to assign easy and unified experience to consumers; while music itself finds its resonance and longevity to its ability to be shape-shifting and ever evolving.
Read MoreListen to an in-studio conversation (with Talia Schlanger) and performance of three songs from Joe's new record Thrum.
Read MoreI am far away from home and my beloved this hour, in a tilting rented house in East Nashville; and for twelve consecutive days, nearly, I have...
Read MoreThis week FUV enlisted Joe to write about his Five Essential John Prine Songs as part of the "FUV Essentials" series.
Read MoreHear an exclusive album premiere of Joe's forthcoming album Thrum by the LA Times...
Read MoreAs of today, you can hear the second premiere from Joe's forthcoming album Thrum—the song "River Floor"...
Read MoreWhen the songs that make up Thrum began to arrive, pair off and multiply ––when I could hear within them a common vocabulary of shared intention–– I began to...
Read Moreto any and all within the sound of my virtual voice! (and any who, perhaps, have a brother-in-law with a late-model buick who might ferry you to knoxville, TN...
Read MoreNOW IT CAN BE TOLD… This house –looking here like a cross between fairytale doom and a Christmas cookie— is called the Garfield House. It was built...
Read MoreTo whom it may concern: I have been discussing this possibility for years with my dear friend of a quarter century – my true sister – Sam Phillips; and...
Read MoreLike a birthday, the release date of a new album can send a thrum of anticipation through its alchemist’s bones, as if a...
Read MoreTO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My new album that stands trembling upon your threshold, Invisible Hour, is my 13th as a solo artist. It represents plenty to me beyond sheer endurance;...
Read MoreI trust some of you may have noticed the formal album release this week of The 78 Project, on which I am –in duet with my friend Lisa Hannigan...
Read MoreI have told both of my children this many times over, regarding life and one’s expectations:
“All you can know for sure is that it won’t happen as you imagine it.”
Read MoreNearly 3 years ago, i toured Japan for the first time. I accepted the invitation with uncertainty, believing that –since i had never been– i’d be starting from scratch...
Read Moredear friends, now it can be told… throughout much of june, i will be touring in collaboration with my friend and sister, the great lisa hannigan of ireland. we...
Read MoreThis past Tuesday afternoon, many of us began to receive and share word that Levon Helm was in the final stages of his long and heroic battle with cancer....
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