Henry Carrigan

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

We’ve all read a novel or a poem, studied a work of art, or listened to a song and asked ourselves what the creative process of the author or artist or musician must be like. How does a songwriter start a song? How was she inspired to write the

Norbert Putnam has so many good stories, and he’s a cracking good storyteller. His sense of humor, his detailed sketches of events and people, his love of people, his passion for the music he plays, produces, and writes turn every story he tells into a humorous and fascinating tale

If you heard just about any soul, pop, or even country hit between 1960 and 1974, and well beyond, you were hearing a special sound produced by a musical genius named Rick Hall. In a little northern Alabama town called Muscle Shoals, Hall worked tirelessly — he would later write in

Roy Orbison once said, “people often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to remembered.” If Orbison could look back these almost-30 years now after his death (on Dec. 6, 1988), he’d discover that he’s been more than

Whenever skiffle comes up in a conversation, folks mention Lonnie Donegan — and maybe Van Morrison — as if just the sound of the name should be the end of the conversation. Thankfully, Billy Bragg decided that a proper history of skiffle — including its influence on him and his own music — needed