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Henry Carrigan

Yonder Mountain String Band Dances in the Moonlight

Yonder Mountain String Band Dances in the Moonlight

A little more than halfway through their new album, Yonder Mountain String Band launches into a slow, sensuous version of the old King Harvest chestnut “Dancing in the Moonlight.” King Harvest’s original kicks off with a twinkling electric piano whose recurring chords float under the singer’s gravelly voice

Searching for a Perfectly Good Guitar

Searching for a Perfectly Good Guitar

The first time Pete Townshend smashed a guitar on stage, every guitarist not only cringed and got a little pissed off at Townshend for destroying an instrument that turned him into a great musician but also mourned the death of the music that would never more flow from that instrument.

Jim Dickinson May Be Dead, But He's Not Gone

Jim Dickinson May Be Dead, But He's Not Gone

When I heard the news that Gregg Allman died, I immediately pulled out his album Laid Back and listened to it over and over, especially the songs “All My Friends,” “These Days,” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” I’d never again see Gregg Allman play and sing those songs,

Peter Cooper on Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride

Peter Cooper on Johnny's Cash and Charley's Pride

Peter Cooper, the Senior Director, Producer, and Writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame, hits home runs every time he steps up to the plate. When he was covering music for the Tennessean, you could count on Cooper to deliver humorous, perceptive tales of country musicians and their foibles.

Jessi Colter's "An Outlaw and a Lady"

Jessi Colter's "An Outlaw and a Lady"

In the now-infamous country anthem of loss (whose words regrettably ring truer with each passing year) “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” George Jones warbles about those singers who “tear your heart out when they sing” like one in particular, “the outlaw that walks through Jesse’s dream.” Most

John Oates' Change of Seasons

John Oates' Change of Seasons

In his often entertaining, sometimes flat-as-pavement new memoir, Change of Seasons, John Oates energetically delivers a portrait of an artist as a man in search, superficially at least, of himself. Oates displays his typical manic energy in these pages as he jumps from his childhood and youth in

The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

Throw a rock from anywhere you’re standing in Texas, and you’re bound to hit a songwriter. Like churches, there’s a singer-songwriter on every corner in every town of the Lone Star republic. Simply to list the names of recent artists would fill the pages of a