Joseph Lee Henry (born December 2, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He has released 13 studio albums and produced numerous recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums.
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Henry was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the state where his parents, whom he describes as a devout Christian, also came from. She grew up in Oakland Township, Michigan and attended Rochester Community Schools. He graduated from Rochester Adams High School, then graduated from the University of Michigan.
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Careers
1985 to 2005
Henry moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1985 and began performing in local music venues. He released his first album "Talk of Heaven" in 1986. The album earned him a record deal with A & amp; M, which later released the album Crows Assassination in 1989 and Shuffletown > in 1990. Shuffletown, produced by T-Bone Burnett, representing shifting in the direction of music to the genre "alt country". Two subsequent Henry recordings, Short Man's Room (1992) and Kindness of the World (1993), featured members of the country-rock band Jayhawks. The song "King's Highway" was recorded by Joan Baez in 2003 and Gov't Mule in 2005. For her 1996 Trampoline album Henry included Page Hamilton of Helmet guitarist and observer at Trouserpress called the album " idiosyncratic closeness. "
1999 Fuse was recorded with producers Daniel Lanois and T-Bone Burnett. The album is called an "atmosphere miracle" by one reviewer and Ann Powers of the New York Times writes: Henry has "found a voice that complements his verbal approach."
Scar was released in 2001, featuring jazz musicians Marc Ribot, Brian Blade, Brad Mehldau and saxophone player Ornette Coleman on "Richard Pryor Addresses A Tearful Nation." According to Thom Jurek Allmusic, the album is "a victory not only for Henry - who has set a new watermark for himself - but for American popular music, who desperately needs something else to make him sing again." [1]
2003's homemade album Tiny Voices is Henry's first recording of the Anti Epitaph label. Jurek describes the album as "an electric guitar.... sound in an abandoned but complete Tiki bar at Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles." [2]
Henry's wife persuaded her to let her send Madonna, who is her sister, a demo of her song "Stop," which was reworked and recorded as "Do not Tell Me" (from the 2000 album of Madonna
In the early 2000s, Henry was a member of the inaugural Assessment panel of the Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.
2006 to present
After producing Solomon Burke's award-winning Grammy album Do not Give Up on Me, Henry produced additional notes and in 2006 opened a home studio where he often collaborated with Ryan Freeland and Los Musicist-based engineers Angeles like Jay Bellerose, Greg Leisz, David Piltch, Patrick Warren and Keefus Ciancia. In September 2006, Henry and Loudon Wainwright III began composing music for the movie Judd Apatow Knocked Up in Henry's home studio. Some instruments were used as backgrounds for movies while other songs appeared in Wainwright 2007 Strange Weirdos produced by Henry.
In 2007, Henry released Civil, described as "a rich acoustic affair that returns us to Henry's rootsier voice". The last song on the album, "God Only Knows," is used in "TCM Remembers 2008" TV commercials. The Bonnie Raitt 2012 Slipstream album, produced by Henry, contains two versions of Civilian.
In 2009, Henry released his ninth solo album, Blood from Stars which incorporated a blues orchestra with guitarist Marc Ribot, pianist Jason Moran and his son with a saxophone. The album focuses on blues aspects with jazz, rock and pop, and traces the harsh history of American stories. "
In May 2011, Henry released the album Reverie with a simple acoustic instrument on guitar, bass, piano, and upright drum. "When you listen to daydream , especially on headphones, you can hear traffic in the background or neighbors calling his dog.This is not always a pure recording environment.Henry not only left the window open in his studio basement, but also put a microphone on them. "" But there is this singer-songwriting environment, this post-Dylan fallout, people who think that your diary pages are set for music are songs, and that the more songs are 'honest', the more well they are.And that's the biggest misconception about American popular music: that if you're honest, you're entertaining. "
In June 2014, Henry released his thirteenth album, Invisible Hour . It was recorded at LA home studio, The Garfield House, in 2013 with regular bands of musicians (Jay Bellerose, Jennifer Condos, Levon Henry, Greg Leisz, John Smith, and David Piltch). Guests who provide background vocals on this album include The Milk Carton Kids and Lisa Hannigan. Paste magazine described it as "11 very beautiful songs" and "Joe Henry's work".
In October 2017, Henry released Thrum , which some fans called one of the best in his career.
Reception
Henry is portrayed as a simple "criticism" with a reputation for encouraging envelopes "and who write" songs that do not fit easily defined boxes "and instead be influenced by folk, blues, jazz, rock and country.
Personal life
Henry married Melanie Ciccone in 1987. They have two children. Melanie is the sister of the Madonna entertainer.
In 2013, Henry and his brother David released a biography of Richard Pryor, entitled Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and The World That Made It .
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