John Henry

TMBG Take On A Full Band!

As They Might Be Giants expanded from live performance with a tape recorder to a full backing band, taking their new, fuller sound into the studio was a natural move, and John Henry, their first full length album with live musicians including Brian Doherty on drums and Pere Ubu’s Tony Maimone on bass, John Henry documents this moment in TMBG’s evolution. The band woodsheded in upstate New York at the legendary Bearsville Studios. While John Henry’s organic sound and warmer production initially took many by surprise, show-stopping staples like Meet James Ensor, No One Knows My Plan, Spy, and The End Of The Tour endured as staples of the live show…