Blood from Stars

Joe Henry - Blood from Stars

Blood from Stars
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Artist: Joe Henry
Brand: HENRY,JOE
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-08-18
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
  1. Prelude: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down
  2. The Man I Keep Hid
  3. Channel
  4. This Is My Favorite Cage
  5. Death To The Storm
  6. All Blues Hail Mary
  7. Bellwether
  8. Progress of Love (Dark Ground)
  9. Over Her Shoulder
  10. Suit On A Frame
  11. Truce
  12. Stars
  13. Coda: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down

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Music Review: A simmering stew
Rating: 5 Stars

When you sift through the musical styles, genres, and influences that attach themselves to Joe Henry's wonderful Blood from Stars, what's left is a simmering stew that smacks of blues, jazz, cabaret, rock and other subtler ingredients. I'm not able to muster a blow-by-blow accounting of the songs here--this is one of those few recordings that strike me as something to take all at once, like a spoonful of fish oil--and I find my favorites keep changing depending on when and where or even how I listen. (By "how" I mean, am I listening alone, listening when doing other things, or trying to inflict my musical proclivities on someone else.)

Mr. Henry commands a crack ensemble of veteran musicians whose talents he puts to great use in these tight arrangements that sometimes yield jaw-dropping moments as when the full band locks step and takes things up a notch in The Man I Keep Hid or Bellwether. Despite the deep traditions that inform these songs, Mr. Henry ups the hip factor with overlays of unusual effects or total change up as with the bongo drumming that end All Blues Hail Mary. The anthem Suit on a Frame crackles with a menacing energy as Mr. Henry repeats "my every breath" and his band plays with an inspired fervor, a true sum of the parts.

As noted frequently, some songs share something with Tom Waits' music, particularly his earlier works, though I find this sharing more the result of having a common muse than a common result. Yet I also suspect that the facets I like here--the multitude of influences, expressions, and genres well-played with a retro noir feel--may not command the attention Mr. Henry should garner in a world where music is a commodity that has to be slotted and categorized as though it were mail.
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Description of Blood from Stars

With his work as both producer and a songwriter overlapping and informing one another, it is only natural that the blues found their way onto Henry's latest album "Blood From Stars" after most recently producing albums for Allen Toussaint and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. The album features veteran musicians like guitarist Marc Ribot and pianist Jason Moran. Joe Henry has produced and written with Loudon Wainwright, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Ornette Coleman, Solomon Burke, Madonna, Ani DiFranco, Don Byron, T-Bone Burnett and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

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