JH on Trixie Whitley

I came across another spanish Interview from the 'Invisible Hour' Tour.
It was an interview for Radio Gladys Palmera.

It's dubbed in spannish, so many thanks to my friend Laura for helping me to translate.

The interview has a little background on how Joe came to Trixie Whitley for the Fleetwood mac tribute album called just tell me that you want me .

The song Trixie brings on this album is called  Before the Beginning. Joe produced it. He says she's incredible ! her father (Chris Whitley) was a good friend of his, they had worked together.
(Chris Whitley played on Joe's album fuse.)  

After her father died he never saw Trixie again. 

Then he was in New York, producing Marianne Faithfull for the fleetwood mac tribute album. He was in a taxi, going to Marianne's studiosession, and he wondered if Trixie would be around. He thought she would sound great singing with Marianne. He phoned her, and she wanted to do it. She sang beautifully together with Marianne Faithfull. 

The project coordinator loved it and suggested that Trixie should have her own song in the album too. It was the first time that he saw her again since she was nine.




Listen to the original Interview over here (excerpt from 33:20 to 34:20)

Joe interviews Greg Leisz

God is in the details has the news that Joe will interview his long time collaborator Greg Leisz.

Visit David's blog for all the info.

Live news

Hey all,

I lived a bit on a rollercoaster last week. But it's so much fun. This morning I had some time to relax a bit with a fine cup of coffee, and see if there is some interesting JH news around.

And yes, there is. And some of it is regarding live performances. I'll group them here.

• First of all

The official website announced 3 new 'Invisible Hour' tour dates.
January 18, 2015 : Minneapolis
January 19, 2015 : Chicago
January 20, 2015 : Louisville

• Cincinnati Pops

As I posted before Joe will be joining John Morris Russell, Rosanne Cash, Over the Rhine, Don Flemons, Aoife O’Donovan and Comet Bluegrass All-Stars for an 'American Originals' concert. 

Shows will be on January 23,24 and 25. 

This has now been confirmed by Joe's official website.  
Get tickets on : http://cincinnatisymphony.org

• Acoustic Cafe

Last week, while he was in Nashville, Joe was invited to record a few songs for radioshow Acoustic Cafe. This taping hosted not only Joe, but also Lee Ann Womack. 

from the tennessean 
The ever-prolific Henry played a few typically insightful and brooding tunes from his new Invisible Hour album, as well as fielding several questions from Reinhart concerning the recent release of the Henry-produced Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revised.

The show will be broadcasted later this fall. Acoustic Cafe airs in Nashville from 10 am-noon Sundays on WRLT-FM (100.1)

http://acafe.com/

•  Americana awards show available  soon

As of January 1th, NPR will be streaming the Americana awards where Joe, together with Emmylou Harris presented the award for duo of the year to the milk carton kids. 
Looking at a picture on the americana music association's website, Joe also performed in a (how to put it ?) an 'all star performance' maybe ?

also : PBS will broadcast an edited version of the show as an Austin City Limits special, ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival in November, 2014

From an article on engine145.com I conclude that the 'all star' band played 'Get Rythm' by Johnny Cash. 

• Lots of pictures of the City Winery show together with Rodney Crowell, Laura Cantrell, Grant-Lee Phillips & Robyn Hitchcock.

Photographer Amos Perrine has lots of pictures on his flickr page .
  

From Blurtonline 
.....The newly christened City Winery, opened mere days before, was the site for solo sets by Joe Henry and Robyn Hitchcock, both of whom held the crowd wowed and rapt throughout. The beauty of Henry’s intimate compositions was countered by Hitchcock’s off kilter psychedelia.....

Australian tour 2014

Shows

Joe and Levon Henry, together with opening act Heath Cullen performed 5 shows in Australia.  

Sept 9

The Basement, Sydney, AUS

Sept 10

The Basement, Sydney, AUS

Sept 12

Melbourne Recital Center: Melbourne, AUS

Sept 13

Meeniyan Town Hall: Meeniyan, AUS

Sept 14

Brisbane Festival: Brisbane, AUS

- See more at: http://joehenrylovesyoumadly.com/#sthash.4bdSYiGR.dpuf

9^th September 2014 : The Basement, Sydney NSW

10^th September 2014 : The Basement, Sydney NSW  

12^th September 2014 : Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne VIC

13^th September 2014 : Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan VIC

14^th September 2014 : Brisbane Festival, Spiegeltent, Brisbane QLD

Reviews

The Sydney Morning Herald
Secrets? Henry's literal thrust can be deeply shrouded, even among the vivid images of blood-lusty angels and sliding bombardiers in a tune called Plainspeak.

Clare's Blog
...and now, unexpected, this gift of grace – of happiness beyond contentment, this evening of beauty and humour and depth that reminds me of all the good things in life....

No Depression 
....And Joe Henry? Warm and engaging, fiercely intelligent, a generous performer....

Trivia

In Meeniyan Town Hall, Joe played, together with opening act Heath Cullen ,Woody Guthrie's song Ramblin Around (source)
There is a wonderful picture of that by Graeme Wilson

Setlists

September 12th : Melbourne (source)

1. Sold
2. After The War
3. Odetta
4. Invisible Hour
5. Swayed
6. Eyes Out For You
7. Dirty Magazine
8. Sparrow
9. Monkey
10. Our Song
11. Lead Me On
12. Believer
13. Stop
14. God Only Knows
15. Kindness of the World
16. (Encore) Slide
17. (Encore 2) Parker's Mood

P.S. if you witnessed 1 of these shows, feel free to contact me and tell your own story about your experience.

JH Special on German radio

Tune in tonight on kulturradio.de for a Joe Henry Special.

Monday September 8 at 19:30h Central European time.

MusiCares

From the LA Times's Pop and Hiss

The idea is that rather than be deluge in near-freezing water, musicians and music fans should take a photo of themselves holding a favorite LP ("one that has made or makes your life better," DeSavia says), donate $5 or more to MusiCares and post the photo to social media using the hashtag #MusiCaresChallenge. Then challenge three friends, or any of the musicians involved in the chosen album, to do the same.

So far, participants include singer-songwriter Sam Phillips, who is photographed with a copy of “The Best of Slim Harpo,” Joe Henry (Thelonious Monk's "Criss-Cross"), Rhett Miller (David Bowie's "ChangesTwo"), Kevin Griffin (Neil Young’s “Harvest”), Richard Edwards of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s (“The True Story of Abner Jay”) and DeSavia, who kicked off the effort with a copy of X’s “Under the Big Black Sun.”


About musiCares :
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.  

I love music, and musicians. So I also supported.

Australian Tour Promo

Some really great  interviews to promote his Australian tour.

• Radio interview : music show on radio national

Listen to Joe talk about working with the musicians on Invisible Hour, Poetry and Music, Working on Allen Tousaints album 'The bright Mississippi', producing other artists....

Listen here.

• Article in the sydney morning Herald.

"...As ever, this one is highly unlikely to be overrun by the millions forever stampeding towards the latest pop rush. But even if he never gets a YouTube hit in his life, that nameless, loveless guy from Sign will probably haunt every living soul he meets forever...."

• Interview for ABC net .

JH Performs on ABC net


Full interview and performance over here. 

• Interview for Tom Magazine.