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From the Archives

March 16, 2005

Aimee Mann Raises "Arm"

Singer-songwriter to release long-awaited concept album in May
September 16, 2004

DiFranco Knuckles Down

Folk singer looks ahead to next album, election
September 10, 2004

Mann Enters "Jailhouse"

Singer-songwriter to release concept record in March
March 26, 2004

DiFranco Teams With Henry

Indie singer-songwriter enlists producer for first time

Recordings and Reviews

Scar

On Scar, Joe Henry makes lounge music that sounds like it should've come from the decaying slums of some Eastern European dictatorship during the last days of the Cold War. What's frustrating is that much of the instrumentation here is more engaging than the songs; Scar's parts add up to more than...

2001 RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

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While the typical recording career arcs from more inspired early work to more conventional later stuff, Joe Henry is one of the very few artists (like, say, Tom Waits, Scott Walker) whose music has gotten more challenging and dynamic over time. As such, only the most determined completists need troll the used bins for Henry's out-of-print early albums, 1986's Talk of Heaven, 1989's Murder of...

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