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Joe Henry's Code of the Road
by Leo Sidran
For Joe Henry, truth in songwriting doesn't come from confession or fact. It comes from presence, from listening, from surrender, from giving shape to the ineffable. As he puts it: “Total presence--that is the code of my road." Henry's road has taken him across both the literal and metaphorical map of American music. Born in North Carolina, raised in Georgia and Ohio, and coming of age in Michigan, he grew up suspended between North and South, white and ...
Continue ReadingOver the Rhine Album 'The Long Surrender' Enlists Joe Henry Production and Lucinda Williams, Guest Vocals
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Due out January 11, 2011, the album they call “a record we couldn't imagine in advance" marks the duo's 20th year. Lucinda Williams makes a vocal appearance. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Long Surrender, the new studio album from the southern Ohio- based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist, otherwise known as Over the Rhine, is something rare and wondrous—an intimate epic. The fan-funded record, to be released January 11, 2011 on OtR's own Great Speckled Dog label ...
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Joe Henry Gives His Own Tone to the Blues
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Michael Ricci
The musical wanderer's 'Blood From Stars' was released last week, also has become a noted producer.
Joe Henry is tapped into the American past in unexpected ways. He lives in a roomy South Pasadena Craftsman designed for President Garfield's widow, and his preferred attire, a black suit and pointy boots, suggests that the 48-year-old singer and guitarist would have been at home playing in Elvis Presley's first band.
“I typically come to things late," Henry said. “I was too busy ...
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Joe Henry Gives His Own Tone to the Blues
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Michael Ricci
Joe Henry is tapped into the American past in unexpected ways. He lives in a roomy South Pasadena Craftsman designed for President Garfield's widow, and his preferred attire, a black suit and pointy boots, suggests that the 48-year-old singer and guitarist would have been at home playing in Elvis Presley's first band. “I typically come to things late," Henry said. “I was too busy with Leadbelly when the Clash happened." These days, the easygoing musician is venturing back to some ...
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NPR Exclusive First Listens:Terence Blanchard, Joe Henry, Tim Buckley, & the New Lost City Ramblers
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Michael Ricci
NPR Music is presenting full advance streams of four new albums ahead of their release dates: Terence Blanchard's Choices; Joe Henry's Blood from Stars; Tim Buckley's Live at Folklore Center, NYC - March 6th, 1967 and a reissue box set from The New Lost City Ramblers. All four will be available for free, on-demand listening at www.npr.org/music as part of the site's “Exclusive First Listen" series. The entire series - which includes full albums in all genres - is available ...
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