Joe henry biography

Born in 1960 in Charlotte, NC; grew up in the Detroit, MI, area; married Melanie Ciccone (sister of recording artist Madonna), 1987. Education: Graduated from the University of Michigan. Addresses: Record company--Mammoth Records, 101 B Street, Carrboro, NC 27510, website: http://www.mammoth.com.

Joe Henry is a widely respected musical artist whose moody vignettes about life's dark, sorrowful, and uncertain moments have remained powerful over the course of more than a half dozen albums.

Interview with Joe Henry - Folk and Tumble

"He's about as far from big-picture, collective-experience guys like Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and Bruce Cockburn as you can get," mused Thom Jurek in the Metro Times, who went on to note that Henry does not fit in with the rock world's canon of "wordsmiths" or confessionalists, either: "Henry's more like a filmmaker using jump cuts and disruptive devices to communicate a musical message that even he doesn't understand fully." Henry concurred, waving off The History of Rock Music.

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