Joe Henry
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Charlotte NC, United States (1985 – present)
Henry was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, but grew up in the Detroit area where he met Melanie Ciccone, Madonna’s sister, whom he married in 1987. In 1985 he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he played at small clubs. His debut album Talk of Heaven came out in 1986. He signed to A&M Records and released two albums, Murder of Crows (1989) and Shuffletown (1990)
After Henry and his wife moved to Los Angeles in 1990, he left A&M in 1992 to join the independent label Mammoth, located in North Carolina. He released Short Man’s Room and Kindness of the World, on which members of the Jayhawks provided instrumental backing.
In the mid-1990s Henry decided “to do something decidedly more electric” instead of continuing with country-rock. He turned to producer Patrick McCarthy, in making his next album Trampoline (1996). Trampoline also employed metal guitarist Page Hamilton, who demonstrated his own eagerness to stretch by collaborating on the album.
Asked to contribute a song to a benefit album for singer Vic Chesnutt in 1996, Henry also collaborated with his famous sister-in-law on a cover of Chesnutt’s “Guilty by Association” (Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, The Songs of Vic Chesnutt, 1996).
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Trampoline
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Lisa Hannigan
El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles CA, United States
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Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, Canada
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Lisa Hannigan & Joe Henry
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington DC, United States
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