She began her career as the lead singer and songwriter for the band Knots and Crosses.
After a major-label bidding war led to a failed deal with Island Records, the group disbanded.
The "Carol Noonan Band" featured Duke Levine and Kevin Barry on guitars.
An NPR darling for her music, she has also been a guest essayist on Weekend Edition, and was included on one of their Driveway Moments compilations.
She is married to a commercial fishing net builder Jeff Flagg; together they run the Stone Mountain Arts Center, a music hall behind their house in Brownfield, Maine.