I swore off —and some time ago— the notion of music videos as they came to be known: it always being a perilous proposition to wed images for promotional purposes to music —the former meaning to assign easy and unified experience to consumers; while music itself finds its resonance and longevity to its ability to be shape-shifting and ever evolving.
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Listen to an in-studio conversation (with Talia Schlanger) and performance of three songs from Joe's new record Thrum.
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I am far away from home and my beloved this hour, in a tilting rented house in East Nashville; and for twelve consecutive days, nearly, I have...
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This week FUV enlisted Joe to write about his Five Essential John Prine Songs as part of the "FUV Essentials" series.
Read MoreHear an exclusive album premiere of Joe's forthcoming album Thrum by the LA Times...
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As of today, you can hear the second premiere from Joe's forthcoming album Thrum—the song "River Floor"...
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When the songs that make up Thrum began to arrive, pair off and multiply ––when I could hear within them a common vocabulary of shared intention–– I began to...
Read Moreto any and all within the sound of my virtual voice! (and any who, perhaps, have a brother-in-law with a late-model buick who might ferry you to knoxville, TN...
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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD… This house –looking here like a cross between fairytale doom and a Christmas cookie— is called the Garfield House. It was built...
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To whom it may concern: I have been discussing this possibility for years with my dear friend of a quarter century – my true sister – Sam Phillips; and...
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Like a birthday, the release date of a new album can send a thrum of anticipation through its alchemist’s bones, as if a...
Read MoreTO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My new album that stands trembling upon your threshold, Invisible Hour, is my 13th as a solo artist. It represents plenty to me beyond sheer endurance;...
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