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.

Listen to an in-studio conversation (with Talia Schlanger) and performance of three songs from Joe's new record Thrum.

I 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...

When 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...

NOW 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...

To 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...

Like a birthday, the release date of a new album can send a thrum of anticipation through its alchemist’s bones, as if a...