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Henry Carrigan

Jeff Tweedy Invites Us into His Life

Jeff Tweedy Invites Us into His Life

This fall, one music memoir stands above the gelatinous glut of words that have oozed onto bookshelves and into our lives. Jeff Tweedy’s Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. — the main title is a phrase his father used

Dreaming Our Dreams of Dylan

Dreaming Our Dreams of Dylan

In what is likely Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, Prospero, the great magician who has controlled much of the play’s action, reminds us of the razor-thin line between our waking life and our sleeping life: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life

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,