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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
Linda S. Godfrey’s Monsters Among Us
Books on cryptozoology tend to run the gamut. On one end, you have deadly serious scientific approaches penned by folks like the late Dr. Grover Krantz; on the other you have unedited, unreadable first person accounts of sasquatches who keep … Continue reading
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John Jacob Niles’ The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
Ever wonder what happened to the Child ballads that came across the water? Have you been curious about the lives of the folks whose wavery voices emerge from Lomax’s home recordings? This book contains the answers, plus over one hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachain folklore, Appalachain music, John Jacob Niles. Child Ballads
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Clay Eals’ Steve Goodman: Facing The Music
Everybody knows one Steve Goodman song. The Chicago-born and -bred folksinger wrote “City of New Orleans,” the iconic ’70s song popularized by Arlo Guthrie. If that were the only thing he’d ever done, it would be enough, because it’s a great … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman
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Jane Yolen and Li Ming’s Merlin and the Dragons
There’s a phrase I reserve for rare treasures like this book. “Oooooooooo, PRETTY!” Anyone who knows me knows to just back away, and give me whatever it is I want, when they hear that particular phrase. It means trouble. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthurian mythology, Kig Arthurian, Merlin
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Kathleen Basford’s The Green Man
Liz Milner penned this review. I am, of course, deeply honored to be given the task of writing about our noble namesake, and I had high hopes for this book. The cover, after all, features a black and white photograph of … Continue reading
Liam Clancy’s The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
This is the autobiography of Liam Clancy, the youngest member of the Irish folk music group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Liam and The Clancy Brothers were responsible for making Irish Folk Music and Aran sweaters a fad in … Continue reading
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Tagged Clancy Brothers, Irish music, Irish trad music, Liam Clancy
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Michael Brocken’s The British Folk Revival, 1944-2002
Liz Milner penned this review. The British Folk Revival is often overlooked. It is mostly viewed as the pale, plain stepsister to the flamboyant American revival of the late 1950s and ’60s. Michael Brocken seeks to redress this imbalance with what … Continue reading
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Tagged British folk music, British folk music revival
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Various Artists’ The Saga of Solomon Kane and Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, et al’s The Chronicles of Solomon Kane
The heroes created by Robert E. Howard have gone through many manifestations, from magazine serials to story collections to film and comics. Comics seem to have provided particularly fertile ground — there are adaptations of Howard’s stories, stories developed from … Continue reading
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Tagged heroic fantasy, Robert E. Howard
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Cassandra Khaw’s Hammers On Bone
2016 has been a banner year for smart, thought-provoking takes on Ye Olde Cthulhu Mythos. The first standout was Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, and now we’ve got Cassandra Khaw’s Hammers On Bone, a neo-noir with all its … Continue reading
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Sharyn McCrumb’s The Songcatcher
The Songcatcher is the latest volume in Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad series, which examines life in the Appalachian Highlands as reflected in the folk music tradition of that culture. Earlier books in the series are If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian Mountains, mystery
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