Artist: Joe Henry
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Joe Henry – New soul
It sometimes seems as if Joe Henry has spent most of his nearly two-decade career standing just out of the frame in other people’s glamour shots. He is, of course, the brother-in-law of someone or other named Madonna, and in his fifth-grade band he sat next to a young boy who would, not too many [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Joe Henry – Sunset Tavern (Seattle, WA)
It’s been said that a song’s power can be tested when it’s sung in a different language. While Joe Henry kept his vocals in English for this performance, it was the music that seemed foreign. Stripped of their usual lush production and instrumentation, his songs certainly stood the test. Backed by Jennifer Condos on bass [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Joe Henry – Tiny Voices
Let’s see now, how long has it been since alt-country was claiming Joe Henry as one of its next great things? Would you believe a full decade ago, when he was hooking up with the Jayhawks on Short Man’s Room and Kindness Of The World and the sonic experiments in his future weren’t yet a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Joe Henry – Scar
By the company you keep. If that’s how we’re judged, consider the lineup on Joe Henry’s latest, Scar. Me’shell Ndegeocello on bass, Marc Ribot on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, Brad Mehldau on piano. Each a monster. Each a bandleader in his or her own right. And that’s not to mention the legendary Ornette Coleman, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Joe Henry – Fuse / Wilco – Summer Teeth
Once upon a time, in what seems now like a land far, far away, there was this magical, wonderful thing called AM Top 40 radio. True Top 40 radio, though its FM version persisted well into the ’80s, saw its last real period of dominance in the ’70s, before the rock audience was filleted, ever [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #8 March-April 1997
Joe Henry – 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)
Sitting alone onstage after he and a couple friends took a rich-and-ragged run through his own impressive body of work, Joe Henry decided to reach for some stardust when called out for an encore by a capacity crowd at the West Bank’s 400 Bar. “I never meant to cause you any sorrow,” he sang in [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Joe Henry – This time he’s not coming down
It’s a recurring dream, one you’ve had so many times that you no longer think of it as a dream; when it plays in your head, you feel like you’re watching a favorite old movie. It’s a movie of you and your former love, and you’ve seen it so many times that every scene, every [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #3 Spring 1996
Joe Henry – Trampoline
On Trampoline, his sixth and finest record, Joe Henry expands not only his own boundaries, but those of the entire singer-songwriter genre. In stark contrast to Henry’s previous two releases, Kindness of the World and Short Man’s Room, which were recorded with most of the Jayhawks as a backing band, Trampoline is largely a solo [...]
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