Joe Henry

This pop-jazz troubadour has been flying just under the radar for over two decades. Henry’s “intimate, soulfully dusted voice” (Downbeat) is equally at home with collaborators as varied as The Jayhawks, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Ornette Coleman, to name but a few. His production credits are as impressive as his solo work: recent additions include Allen Toussaint’s “The Bright Mississippi,” and Mose Allison’s forthcoming “The Way of the World.”

“[Henry] has moved into a space that only he and Tom Waits inhabit in that they are songwriters who have created deep archetypal characters that are composites—metaphorical, allegorical, and ‘real’—of the world around them and have created new sonic universes for them to both explore and express themselves in… a triumph not only for Henry—who has set a new watermark for himself—but for American popular music, which so desperately needed something else to make it sing again.” -Thom Jurek, All Music

• “God Only Knows” from a recent tour

• “Trampoline” from a less recent tour

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