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Henry Carrigan

Jerry Rubin: From Yippie to Yuppie

Jerry Rubin: From Yippie to Yuppie

Fifty years ago this week (Aug. 23-26, 1968), Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and many others organized The Festival of Life in Chicago on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. Coming at the end of an already violent year — with the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. in April and

Is Classic Rock Dead?

Is Classic Rock Dead?

What is classic rock? Who gets to define the phrase, and who decides what bands or artists fall into the category? Did those of us who spent our youth listening to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Ten Years After—to name a few—believe that

How Musicians Make the World a Better Place

“If we deal in anything as artists, we must be promoting empathy. That’s what music can do. It can’t change the world, but it can make you feel things for people you’ve never met. It can make you understand the situation of people you’ve never read

Something's Happening Here

Something's Happening Here

On May 5, 1968, Buffalo Springfield (Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young), the band that launched a thousand — well, several, anyway — bands that would define country-rock music in the late '60s and early '70s, performed its final concert. Furay would soon form Poco

Finding Florida's Soul

Finding Florida's Soul

Pensacola, Gainesville, Greenville, Tallahassee, Orlando, and Miami aren’t the first cities that come to mind when you’re talking about soul music. Although country artists (the Bellamy Brothers, Bobby Braddock), rockers (Tom Petty, Don Felder, Bernie Leadon, Stephen Stills), and gospel singers (the Florida Boys Quartet, Ella Mae Wilson,

Joan Baez's Amazing Grace

Joan Baez's Amazing Grace

Joan Baez sings and plays with such understated beauty and elegance that any song she interprets sparkles with glimmers of her just-right vocal phrasing and her cascading guitar work. Her newest album, Whistle Down the Wind, comes a decade after her 2008 Grammy-nominated Day After Tomorrow. Baez’s commitment to

'I Am the Blues and My Life is a Spiritual': Music's Unifying Power

'I Am the Blues and My Life is a Spiritual': Music's Unifying Power

Music touches people’s hearts in deep and enduring ways that words often fail to do. When people hear a certain song, they recall powerfully the feelings they connect with certain events they associate with first hearing that song. Music helps people live through desperate situations, provides soothing comfort in