BELOVED GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SINGER SONGWRITERS MIKE REID & JOE HENRY’S NEW COLLABORATIVE ALBUM LIFE & TIME OUT NOW

JOE HENRY TO BE NAMED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE AT 2025 AMERICANA HONORS & AWARDS

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September 5, 2025—Beloved, GRAMMY award-winning singer songwriters Mike Reid—whose beginnings as an NFL All Pro preceded a music career which has seen twelve #1 country hits and an induction to the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and Joe Henry—who has penned 16 critically acclaimed albums as a solo artist and has blazed a path as a GRAMMY-winning producer, today unveil their highly anticipated new collaborative album, Life & Time, on the Work Song Inc label via Thirty Tigers—listen/share here and pre-order here.

Joe Henry has additionally just been named as a Lifetime Achievement Honoree by the Americana Music Association and will be recognized on September 10 at the 2025 Americana Honors & Awards, held at the historic Ryman Auditorium—tickets to the awards can be found here.

In support of the burgeoning collaboration, the pair will embark on a two-leg U.S. tour in September, performing selections from the album and featuring each as solo artists on selections from their separate catalogues, all with a shared backing band. The tour includes stops at New York’s City Winery Loft, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia’s City Winery, Annapolis’ Rams Head On Stage and The Ark in Ann Arbor. West coast dates are being planned for early 2026. Tickets are on sale now here.

Life & Time’s twelve songs, rooted by the pair’s piano arrangements, feature upright bass, pastoral orchestral flourishes, pied pipes, and twinkling pedal steel, with Reid stepping forward as the singer of the duo, the weather in his burnt-umber voice telegraphing the poetry within Henry’s lyrics.

Henry recalls his first meeting with Reid, sharing a table in the dining hall at Rodney Crowell’s Nashville songwriting camp. The pair exchanged shared influences, people that have contributed to their evolution as thinkers, readers and writers. Reconnecting months later, Henry recalls, “I just heard a couplet in my head and stopped what I was doing and reached out to Mike, reminded him who I was, and asked if he might want to try writing something together. And he uttered a phrase that we've repeated to each other since: “Let's push off the dock and into the fog and we'll see what we find.”’

Reid shares, “There's something very mysterious that happens to me emotionally, whatever that is... physically... when I sing Joe's words, I just... believe them, and more than my mind, my body believes them. I feel physically a belief in this stuff. More than my mind, my body knows... feels these words, and I like that because ultimately, when I do something that isn't working, I feel it physically in my body.” He furthers, “I think, often, whether creating or not, or planting a rose or making a good lasagna, that part of you is always attempting to recognize itself. And the delight for me in this whole time with Joe is I got to recognize something in me that I only suspected was there. Granted, I did suspect it, but I got to recognize it before I moved on from here.”

Through dozens of songs written as a pair, with no agenda, Reid and Henry came to the realization that there was an album made along the way. In the record-making process, the two held a strong collective faith in the specific atmosphere they had already crafted into the songwriting itself. From there, it was a matter of delicate restraint in expanding that atmosphere enough to fill a room without changing the scene.

The singles from the project included the title track “Life & Time” as well as “Weather Rose,” which released with music videos to acclaim from Music Row, Consequence and more.

Though Henry formally produced the record, Reid was very protective over the clarity of Henry’s language, granting him carte blanche with production choices in exchange for a promise that they “...not obscure one word of your poetry!” of which Reid remained referee.

In this cohesive blend, with Reid’s voice and Henry’s word, the pair are a bit like holding up a mirror to a mirror: it’s beside the point to parse each of their distinctive contributions, and much more interesting to simply feel what it’s like to stand between them, here, through Life & Time.

About Mike Reid

Mike Reid moved to Nashville, TN in 1980 marking a return to music after a sidebar career in the NFL — he played football at Penn State while getting his B.A. in Music, was selected in the first round of the 1970 NFL draft and went on to play defensive tackle for five seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. Once in Nashville, however, he quickly made a name for himself as a hit-making songwriter. Reid penned twelve #1 singles in the 80s & 90s, including Alabama’s “Forever As Far As I’ll Go”, Ronnie Milsap’s “Stranger In My House” which won a Grammy in 1984 for Best Country Song, and Bonnie Raitt’s iconic “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” which Reid co-wrote with Alan Shamblin. He has also written songs for countless others, including Conway Twitty, The Judds, Tanya Tucker, and Willie Nelson, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005.

About Joe Henry

Joe Henry is a singer-songwriter who became a record producer as a protege of T Bone Burnett, having gone on to win Grammys for Solomon Burke, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Bonnie Raitt. Notably, he produced the final albums of the late Allen Toussaint, who credited Henry for ushering him out of retirement at a time he thought he’d never leave New Orleans again. Henry’s contribution to American music remains somewhat enigmatic: Joe’s own records often feature adventurous contributions by instrumentalists, such as one of only two cameos Ornette Coleman ever made with a singer, yet a song of his like “Stop” Madonna’s hit single “Don’t Tell Me”. Recently, Nazraeli Press published Unspeakable: The Collected Lyrics of Joe Henry, 1985–2020, though Henry quickly rendered it incomplete by releasing his 16th studio album All The Eye Can See.

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TRACK LIST LIFE & TIME
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

TOUR DATES
September 12 /// Nashville, TN /// AMERICANAFEST
September 14 /// Chicago, IL /// Old Town School of Folk Music
September 15 /// Ann Arbor, MI /// The Ark
September 16 /// Pittsburgh, PA /// City Winery
September 19 /// New York, NY /// City Winery Loft
September 20 /// Philadelphia, PA /// City Winery Philadelphia
September 21 /// Annapolis, MD /// Rams Head On Stage

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