Joe Henry

Week of February 28, 2026

In a career spanning 40 years, Joe Henry has left an indelible and unique imprint on American popular music. As a songwriter and artist, Henry is celebrated for his exploration of the human experience. A hyper-literate storyteller, by turns dark, devastating, and hopeful, he draws an author’s eye for the overlooked detail across a broad swath of American musical styles — rock, jazz, folk and blues — rendering genre modifiers useless.

Henry has collaborated with many notable American artists on his own body of work, from T Bone Burnett, Daniel Lanois, and Van Dyke Parks on one side of the spectrum, to Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Jason Moran, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Frisell on the other. A three-time-Grammy-winning producer, Henry has made records for Bonnie Raitt, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Hannigan, Joan Baez, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Harry Belafonte, Salif Keita, Rhiannon Giddens, and Solomon Burke among many others.

Additionally, Henry has taken his musical talents to film and television. He has scored music for the films Jesus’ Son, Knocked Up, and Motherhood, as well as produced tracks for the film by Todd Haynes, I’m Not There. Henry’s 16th solo album “All The Eye Can See” was released in 2023; and September of 2025 saw the release of “Life And Time” ––Henry’s collaborative project with the legendary songwriter from Nashville, Mike Reid.8