Joe Henry releases his previously unheard demo ‘News From The Great Wide World’ through earMUSIC.

Today sees the release of the first digital single, ‘News From The Great Wide World’, a demo from Henry’s personal archives. ‘In a wonderfully rare and odd occurrence, I stumbled upon this demo recording of a song called ‘News From The Great Wide World’ and remembered none of it: not its melody, nor its lyrics, which presumably had set the whole endeavor in motion.’, Henry recounts.

“The title was lifted from poet Langston Hughes;” he adds, “but even that is something I recognize as opposed to it being a choice I viscerally remember making; and as such, I hear and love this now not as a self-assured performance (it is not), but for what it truly is: a song-in-progress striving for and into the shape of its own formation, while I bore witness. It is one of my favorite parts of the process, wherein I am not so much steering active creation but attending one: its doula; its faithful shepherd boy.”

Pre-Order ‘Invisible Hour’ HERE

The remastered edition of ‘Invisible Hour’, originally recorded in 2013, will be made available on vinyl for the first time on December 06, as well as on CD Digipak. It features several of Henry’s closest musical companions, including Lisa Hannigan and best-selling novelist Colum McCann. Henry describes the songs on the album as ‘songs pertaining in some ways to the subject of marriage – marriage as a verb, not a noun.’ 

In addition to ‘Invisible Hour’, the reissue trilogy also includes Henry’s 2007 record ‘Civilians’ and the 2009 album ‘Blood from Stars’. All three reissue albums are pressed on 180g double-vinyl for the very first time and additionally made available as CD Digipak, for streaming and digital download via earMUSIC.

Listen to ‘News From The Great Wide World (Demo)’ HERE