hypersongs

Scar

The title song, closing the album.
Joe Henry, from Scar (2001)

Henry wrote it, and the official site gives 5:30, while Wikipedia lumps it with a hidden Richard Pryor reprise as a single 14:22 track and a Dutch library catalogue lists about 6:05, so it is unclear whether our upload is the title song alone or the whole closing track. Orlando Weekly reads it as a love song that frames love as a scar. Henry told Steve Newton in June 2001, in remarks that may refer to the album title, that the title seemed to be the title of the song and that he tried to get rid of it, thinking it cumbersome and pretentious. We found no artist statement about the song, no individual credits, chart history, video, covers or samples. Setlist.fm shows three plays.

Sources

  1. Scar, Joe Henry
  2. Scar (Joe Henry album), Wikipedia
  3. Review: Scar, Orlando Weekly (2001-06-14)
  4. Richard Pryor's convictions cut deep on Joe Henry's Scar, Ear of Newt