''Blood from Stars'' is the eleventh studio album by
Joe Henry
Joseph Lee Henry (born December 2, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He has released 15 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums.
Early life
H ...
, released in August 2009, and his third release on the
ANTI-
Anti- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label to Epitaph Records.
Founded by Andy Kaulkin, Anti- first gained attention by releasing Tom Waits's Grammy Award–winning '' Mule Variations'' in 1999. Other veteran recordin ...
label.
Track listing
All songs written by Joe Henry, except where noted.
# "Prelude: Light No Lamp When the Sun Comes Down" – 5:44
# "The Man I Keep Hid" – 5:05
# "Channel" – 5:19
# "This Is My Favorite Cage" – 4:08
# "Death to the Storm" (Henry, Patrick Warren) – 4:58
# "All Blues Hail Mary" – 5:33
# "Bellwether" – 4:02
# "Progress of Love (Dark Ground)" – 4:27
# "Over Her Shoulder" – 3:26
# "Suit on a Frame" – 6:22
# "Truce" – 3:46
# "Stars" – 5:13
# "Coda: Light No Lamp When the Sun Comes Down" – 2:35
Personnel
Production
* Joe Henry – producer, liner notes
*
Ryan Freeland
Ryan Freeland is an American record producer, songwriter, engineer, and mixer based in Los Angeles. Freeland is a five-time Grammy Award winner and is best known for his work with Bonnie Raitt, Ray LaMontagne, Aimee Mann, Joe Henry, Grant-Lee ...
– recording, mixing
* Julian Cubillos – engineering assistance
*
Kevin Killen
Kevin Killen (born October 22, 1959) is a Grammy Award-winning Irish music producer, engineer, and mixer known for his work with recording artists including U2, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Jewel, Bon Jovi, Shawn Colvin, ...
– additional recording
* Anabel Sinn – design
*
W. Eugene Smith
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– photography
* David Piltch – editorial guidance
Musicians
* Joe Henry – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars
*
Jason Moran - acoustic piano (1)
* Keefus Ciancia – keyboards, acoustic piano,
vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...
*
Patrick Warren
Patrick Warren (born March 26, 1957) is an American musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for his work on the films ''Magnolia'', ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', ''Boogie Nights'' and ''Red State'', as well as the television series '' ...
– upright piano,
tack piano
A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the ha ...
, keyboards,
field organ
*
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (;
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.
His work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, Rock music, rock, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notab ...
– electric guitars, acoustic guitar, gut-string guitar,
Epiphone Coronet
The Epiphone Coronet is an entry-level guitar previously manufactured by Epiphone. The guitar has been manufactured a number of times since its first production on the 1950s.
History
The Coronet was first manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporatio ...
,
bowed banjo
*
David Piltch
David Piltch (born January 29, 1960) is a Canadian bassist and session musician.
Biography
Piltch grew up in an artistic family. His father Bernie Piltch was a noted studio and stage saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist in Toronto from the la ...
– electric bass (1-11, 13)
*
Jennifer Condos
Jennifer Condos is an American bass guitarist known primarily for her session and live performance work. She has contributed to the recordings and live performances of many well-known artists.
Biography
Condos was a founding member of the ban ...
– electric bass (12)
*
Jay Bellerose
Jay Bellerose is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session and live performance work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists.
Biography
Bellerose was born in Maine. A jazz enthusiast, he attended ...
– drums, percussion
* Levon Henry – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone,
clarinet
The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell.
Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...
* Mark Hatch –
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...
(8)
*
Marc Anthony Thompson
Chocolate Genius, Inc. is a musical collective started by Marc Anthony Thompson, an Afro-Panamanian-songwriter based in New York City. Thompson conceived Chocolate Genius as an alter ego, which then became a music project.
Collective members
...
– additional vocals
Cover version
In 2012,
Tom Jones
Tom Jones may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Tom Jones (singer) (born 1940), Welsh singer
*Tom Jones (writer) (1928–2023), American librettist and lyricist
*''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'', a novel by Henry Fielding published in 1 ...
released a recording of "All Blues Hail Mary" on his studio album, ''
Spirit in the Room''.
Notes
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Joe Henry albums
2009 albums
Albums produced by Joe Henry
Anti- (record label) albums