Joe Henry- Blood from Stars (2009)- EAC CD Rip (FLAC)

Another Joe Henry album, in case you liked the first one.





From Joe Henry:

Greetings from Bay City, Michigan: The Land That Time Forgot. I spent yesterday, the release day of “Blood From Stars,” in the company of my wife’s 98-year-old grandmother, swatting flies and sipping gin martinis like it was 1967. The air is sweet and breezy, but there is shadow and a fine dust settled over this place that defies even my regular big city reality; though as long as Mrs. Willard A. Fortin and the Tanqueray hold out, I will stop here when I can.

A release day always feels something like a birthday: you walk around, buzzy, imagining that everyone who sees you —even the moody clerk at the post office— recognizes there is something special about you. No matter that it doesn’t last. Nothing does; but new songs in the air liberate one to be awake to the next wave of What Next.

What next? I wouldn’t dare speculate from this sleepy corner of N. Dean Street (beyond tomorrow’s flight on to New York City and a rendezvous with a certain oxtail ragu that —I’ve been assured— has my name upon it). Enough for now to say that “Blood From Stars” still feels very much a living thing to me: like a coffee pot still brewing; a bird lifting; a long line-drive still suspended above the grass —maybe or maybe not within the reach of someone’s outstretched arm; like one of those microbes that mutates because they’re being observed. And I hope it will strike some of you thusly as well.

And like Franklin Roosevelt, voice cracking over the airwaves during perilous times, I’ll tell you straight up and now that I know better times are ahead for all of us. And I am grateful to anyone out there in the dark who might be listening.




Technical Information:

Artist: Joe Henry
Album: Blood from Stars
Year: 2009

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 732 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 298 MB
Length: 0:57:02


Tracklisting:

01. Prelude: Light No Lamp when the Sun Comes Down (2:14)
02. The Man I Keep Hid (5:05)
03. Channel (5:20)
04. This Is My Favorite Cage (4:08)
05. Death to the Storm (4:59)
06. All Blues Hail Mary (5:27)
07. Bellwether (4:02)
08. Progress of Love (Dark Ground) (4:28)
09. Over Her Shoulder (3:26)
10. Suit on a Frame (6:20)
11. Truce (3:46)
12. Stars (5:11)
13. Coda: Light No Lamp when the Sun Comes Down (2:36)





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Joe Henry- Trampoline (1996)- EAC CD Rip (FLAC)

My personal favorite Joe Henry album. It's so, so good.





From Randy Krbechek at CD Shakedown:

On his seventh album (in a 10-year career), Henry has created a moody, idiosyncratic folk-and-rock sound that has few contemporaries.

Like G. Love, Joe Henry strives for a swirling, brooding sound. Unlike G. Love's use of hiphop, Joe Henry stays with a more traditional rock sound, albeit with lots of echo and overdubs. While the title track features a catchy refrain, the more sparse "Flowergirl," with its string accompaniment, takes greater risks.

Trampoline was recorded in Los Angeles and features Page Hamilton from Helmet on guitar, drummers Carla Azar and Tim O'Regan (from the now-defunct Jayhawks), and Bucky Baxter from Dylan's band on zither and steel guitar.

Trampoline is the kind of album Rosanne Cash had in mind when she recorded Ten Song Demo. However, Henry triumphs in every place that Cash stumbles. While the production leans toward the minimalistic, its not as stark and barren as Ten Song Demo. Likewise, while Trampoline paints evocative and emotion-draped images, its not as forlorn and despairing as Cash's world view.

Trampoline defies easy description, but the music holds up over repeated listenings. And that's the mark of a good album. Blending the folk/storyteller style with the trappings of rock recordings, Trampoline bravely makes its own way.




Technical Information:

Artist: Joe Henry
Album: Trampoline
Year: 1996

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 826 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 246 MB
Length: 0:41:37


Tracklisting:

01. Bob & Ray (3:45)
02. Ohio Air Show Plane Crash (6:30)
03. Trampoline (4:35)
04. Flower Girl (2:58)
05. Let Me Have It All (5:12)
06. Medicine (5:03)
07. Go with God (Topless Shoeshine) (4:43)
08. I Was a Playboy (4:33)
09. Parade (4:18)





Trampoline Megaupload Link