Making Tracks : Purist icon Joe Henry goes digital with a slinky new CD.(Review)

From: Newsweek | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

It's a jolt for an old member of Joe Henry's loyal cult following to hear this paragon of acoustic purity describe how he works nowadays. "I've completely gone away from any idea that I'm going to pick up a guitar and a song will come out," Henry says. Instead, he puts the baby down for her nap, goes out to the studio above his garage in L.A., lifts a rhythm track from the Spinners, N.W.A "or one of those CD-ROMs with 500 four-bar drum grooves" and starts to free-associate. "I'd never been technically minded," he says. "In fact, I kind of willfully kept myself ignorant of the ...

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