She was a soccer player in another lifetime where her motto was “play like hell or get off the field.” Carlyn jokes that too many whacks upside the head forced her off that field and into music but what really did it was discovering a connection to life, something she realized after a good friend’s suicide. Born and raised in Philadelphia, as an adult she made her way to Boston, acoustic guitar firmly in hand. Don’t mistake her for the many other singer-songwriters who seek folk fame in those...