"Bloom" music video out now
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.
Joe Henry On World Cafe
Listen to an in-studio conversation (with Talia Schlanger) and performance of three songs from Joe's new record Thrum.
THRUM RELEASE
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...
A NOTE ABOUT THESE RECORDINGS [THRUM]
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...
Big Ears Festival With Marc Ribot
to 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...
The Garfield House
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...
Sam Phillips & Joe Henry: Alone And Together
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...
The Barber Of Seville
Like a birthday, the release date of a new album can send a thrum of anticipation through its alchemist’s bones, as if a...
Invisible Hour
TO 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;...
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor And The World That Made Him
I 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.”
Japan With Lisa Hannigan
Nearly 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...
Touring With Lisa Hannigan
dear 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...
GONE / NOT GONE: Levon Helm In Motion
This 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....