Joe Henry

Gaynor Crawford presents Joe Henry, Tuesday September 9th and Wednesday September 10th at The Basement.

In a career spanning more than two decades, Henry as a songwriter, artist and producer has left a unique imprint on American popular music.  On his own albums, Henry has collaborated with many remarkable American artists, including Don Cherry, T Bone Burnett, Victoria Williams, The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, guitarists Page Hamilton, Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot, Daniel Lanois, Jakob Dylan, and even Ornette Coleman in a rare appearance for the jazz icon.

As an album producer, Henry’s influence has shaped the sound of iconoclastic artists including Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco, Bettye LaVette, and Aimee Mann.  In 2003, he earned a Grammy Award for his production role on Solomon Burke’s astonishing comeback record Don’t Give Up On Me, and reworked alongside his hero and good friend Loudon Wainwright III to create the score for the hit film Knocked Up, material which later became Wainwright’s full-length Strange Weirdos.

Described in  the San Francisco Weekly as a “literate purveyor of a kind of folk-imbued, smokily jazzified, contemporary “adult music” that in a far better world would reside at the top of the pop charts.”

Who:  Joe Henry

Where:  The Basement, Sydney

When:  Tuesday, September 9th and Wednesday, September 10th

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