Mike Reid & Joe Henry - Life & Time Mike Reid & Joe Henry
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In August 2022, Joe Henry, a seasoned but unconventional songwriter, taught at a Nashville songwriting camp, feeling out of place among more commercially successful instructors.
On the first night, he met fellow instructor Mike Reid—former NFL star and acclaimed songwriter.
Despite Henry’s initial awe, Reid immediately engaged him in a heartfelt conversation about poetry, sparking a deep connection.
Months later, inspired by a rhyming couplet, Henry reached out to Reid with a note suggesting they write together.
Reid’s enthusiastic reply—“Let’s push off the dock and into the fog and see what we find”—led to an unexpected and organic collaboration.
Henry sent lyrics; Reid responded with fully formed recordings.
This seamless exchange repeated, producing a body of songs that felt inevitable and deeply shared, as if accessing something beyond either man’s individual reach.
Initially, Henry considered singing the songs himself but ultimately realized Reid’s voice—gravelly, soulful, and richly lived-in—was the perfect vessel.
Reid’s performances transformed the songs into a collective voice of weathered yet hopeful characters, resonating with emotional truth.
The project became not just a musical partnership but a revelation of shared vulnerability, faith, and redemption.
Through these songs, Henry found affirmation that even in our imperfections and doubts, we are worthy of love.
This collection is profoundly elegiac, but also hopeful—a meditation on grief, love, and memory that doesn’t shy away from sorrow, yet seeks transformation through artistic expression.
It feels like a spiritual journal disguised as a folk album, or a soul’s quiet reckoning with the unspeakable beauty and heartbreak of life.
Track List
1 Sleeper Car
2 The Bridge
3 Room
4 Stray Bird
5 Life And Time
6 Martins Ferry
7 Weather Rose
8 Whoever We Are
9 City Of Light
10 Leaning House
11 History
12 So We May
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