JOE HINES TRIBUTE

Thank you for lending your talent to this special project celebrating the life and music of Joe Hines!

If you received an invitation to participate, it’s because we love what you do, and feel you are instrumental (puns!) in bringing Joe’s music to a wider audience.

Through sales of the album, a benefit show, and direct donations to the Joe Hines Project, we aim to help artists with substance use disorders and continue working to end the stigma of addiction.

Joe playing “Invisible Ball” for me, just home from ICU after his car accident.

Joe was a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitar, but also piano, percussion, bass), band leader of Imaginary Jack, and sometimes solo artist going by the moniker A Boy In The Woods. He was readying to go into the studio to make what would probably have been his best album. Sadly, Joe died suddenly, six weeks before his wedding. He was just 32 years old.

Below are several of Joe’s songs for your consideration. I’d love for you to chose one or two that you’d consider covering, and email me with your choices and any questions, hospitalpants@gmail.com.

Once a song is selected, I will mark it as taken by blacking it out.

Thank you all, so much. This project is gonna be beautiful!

- mjjh (Melissa)

"Heroine" at home in our kitchen — with accompaniment from Walter, and refrigerator hum — on a late summer day in September, 2017.

An impromptu duet of Joe’s song “Here Comes Heredity” at home in our kitchen.

MADE GOOD ATTEMPT
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods, 2009
TOXIN
© Joe Hines
THE TRAIN TO AMBROSIA
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
HOW TO FORGET
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
THE EARTH TO BECOME A HOME
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
NOTHING GREATER
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack,
IF ONLY
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
SHOOTING GALLERY
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack,
FEAR IN A CHILD'S EYES
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
A PILLAR IN THE HOUSE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMNED
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
THE BETTER OF THE BAD
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
CONDESCENDING MOUTH
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
THE YOUNGEST SON
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
HEROINE
© Joe Hines
SUNSHINE DEVILS
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
THE BURIAL
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
SMOKE SHADOWS
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
BLACK HAND
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
THE SECRET GAME OF DISAPPEARANCE
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
BIG SURPRISE
Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
HERE COMES HEREDITY (may be available!)
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
STAY OUT
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods

#dailyjoehines for October 5, 2019 "If Only" © Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods

INVISIBLE BALL
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
COUNT FOR SOMETHING
© Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
WINDOW BRICKS
© Joe Hines
PERMANENT DAMAGE
© Joe Hines / A Boy In The Woods
DONE WITH NOTHING GOOD
© Joe Hines / A Boy in the Woods (Death Of A Child)
DIRTY WINDOW
Joe Hines / Imaginary Jack
WHAT A MESS
© Joe Hines / A Boy in the Woods
KITCHEN FIRE
© Joe Hines / Joseph D.H.
PAINFULLY NICE
© Joseph Daniel Hines

Video

Candid videos and assorted live performances of some of Joe’s songs, several of which were never recorded.

The Invention of Rhyme - © Joe Hines 2009

Watch at 2:52 for Joe’s exuberance

Imaginary Jack perform "Sunshine Devils" at Acadia Cafe in Minneapolis, MN on November 4th, 2009.

Video by Adam Wiltgen

Song: "Dirty Game" (... work in progress...) :-) - Joe Hines

Melissa's kitchen, May, 2014.

 

August 29, 2010 Joe and someone else play “Train to Ambrosia,” for my art opening at Matchbox Gallery in NE Minneapolis.
© Joe Hines