Joe Henry

Joe Henry is a singer-songwriter who became a record producer as a protege of T Bone Burnett, having gone on to win Grammys for Solomon Burke, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Bonnie Raitt. Notably, he produced the final albums of the late Allen Toussaint, who credited Henry for ushering him out of retirement at a time he thought he’d never leave New Orleans again. Henry’s contribution to American music remains somewhat enigmatic: Joe’s own records often feature adventurous contributions by instrumentalists, such as one of only two cameos Ornette Coleman ever made with a singer, yet a song of his like “Stop” Madonna’s hit single “Don’t Tell Me”. Recently, Nazraeli Press published Unspeakable: The Collected Lyrics of Joe Henry, 1985–2020, though Henry quickly rendered it incomplete by releasing his 16th studio album All The Eye Can See.