I was driving home one hot summer day after a long shift where nothing went right. I was tired, irritated and frustrated with traffic. I switched on the radio and Seals & Croft sang out about a Summer Breeze rolling through the jasmine and suddenly memories of a wonderful summer day of long ago ... Read More about Soothing the Savage Beast: Music and Inmate Mood

They say that music can “soothe the savage beast,” and I’ve always known listening to certain pieces of music was “good for my soul,” and that listening to the …

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Taken by Joanne R. Delp, and borrowed from "Finger-Picking Styles for Guitar" by Happy Traum, first published by Oak in 1966. Elizabeth Cotten, who grew up around Durham, North Carolina, would perform occasionally at an annual Fourth of July festival (called Festival for the Eno) there in the 1970's. Doc Watson was there a lot too. Anyway, I wonder if I ever saw her, because my family used to go all the time.