Knocked Up

Joe Henry is a three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry, "a modest-selling 'critic’s darling' with a... reputation for pushing the envelope" writes "songs [that] don’t fit into an easily defined box", instead drawing influence from a wide array of music including folk, blues, jazz, rock, country, and alternative forms alike. He has released 12 full-length studio albums under his own name, and has produced dozens more records for others as well. Joe Henry was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area and graduated from the University of Michigan. He moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1985, where he began playing in small clubs and recording music, releasing his first album "Talk of Heaven" in 1986. The album earned him a recording contract with A&M, which subsequently released "Murder of Crows" in 1989 and "Shuffletown" in 1990. "Shuffletown," produced by T-Bone Burnett, was the first to represent a shift in musical direction, and included a group of mostly acoustic players recorded live, directly to two-track master tape. His sound veered toward what was then emerging as "alt country".
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