Henry Carrigan

“Fish were jumpin’ when T Bone Burnett conducted his first conference call with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant to discuss making an album together.” Lloyd Sach’s opening sentence of his critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett, T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit (University of Texas Press) pulls us

Almost every Monday night, The Time Jumpers fill the hall to overflowing at Nashville's 3rd and Lindsley, but the next night you're just as likely to find Gary Clark, Jr., electrifying the crowd with his stinging blues guitar or the McCrary Sisters raising the roof with

These days the University of Florida may be best known for its powerhouse football teams, with quarterbacks like Tim Tebow taking the spotlight both on the field and off. The town of Gainesville, once smack on the tourist trail of US 441 (where outside of town you could guzzle fresh

The first time Vince Gill played music in front of anybody was in the second grade. He played "House of the Rising Sun." "I was scarred early." He laughs. "I didn't know I was playing a song about a whorehouse." It'

Since 1992, when she dropped her first album, What's the 411?, Mary J. Blige — the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul — has released 11 albums. Her most recent came in 2014, The London Sessions, and at least eight of them have gone multiplatinum. Blige has won nine Grammys after 30

Does anybody really listen to James Taylor anymore? Like Salinger's Catcher in the Rye – which was an eye-opener at age 15 but a yawning eye-closer at 50 – Taylor's music conjures up a time and a place of youthful love, when the world might have seemed simpler.