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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Puddings and More Puddings, Really
- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- 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
Category Archives: Music
Various artists’ Slovakia: Folk to Global
I grew up in a world that had a country called Czechoslovakia, which had formed in 1918 following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. It was broken up and mostly absorbed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, reconstituted as part … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, folk music, world music
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Red Kite’s This Too Shall Pass
This album is one of a few that I’ve had on repeat for a major part of 2026. Red Kite’s This Too Shall Pass is a visceral yet cerebral album of jazz rock fusion from a band of veterans who’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Fusion, Jazz music, Nordic jazz, rock and roll
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Kris Davis Trio’s Lost in Geneva
Kris Davis Trio’s Lost in Geneva stands a good chance of being my favorite jazz album of 2026. I admit I’m biased in favor of piano trios, and there’s a lot of new music I haven’t listened to this year … Continue reading
Margo Cilker’s Little White Cross
Margo Cilker is not afraid of lyrical repetition. In the coda to the goodtime song “I Remember Carolina” (written with her husband, singer songwriter Forrest VanTuyl) on her second album Valley of Heart’s Delight, she repeats “best burger in Texas” … Continue reading
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s The Old Beloved Path
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s music is a balm in troubled times. It’s not just his drawling, honeyed vocals, or the nearly uniformly languid tempos, or his unhurried, uncluttered but precise guitar finger picking. For me at least, it’s the way his … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Various artists’ heritage concerts, Celtic Colours International Festival, 2002
Among the 44 concerts and workshops at this year’s Celtic Colours year were a few known as “heritage concerts,” in which the community honors the musicians of an older generation. Among them this year were “Winston’s Home,” “Tribute to Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Breton musc, Celtic music, live music
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Elan Mehler’s Renee Said
I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from this striking album from a somewhat unusual jazz ensemble. To the standard trio of piano, bass and drums, composer and pianist Elan Mehler has added a couple of saxophones and a guitarist, as … Continue reading
Sad Daddy’s Ozark Shine
Sad Daddy is a road-weathered acoustic Americana outfit that’s been making music together for more than a decade and a half now. The worn-in feeling of their fourth studio album Ozark Shine is a testament to their ongoing spirit of … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s Singing Bones (deluxe reissue)
It’s such a cliché to say “I can’t believe it’s been x years since y happened,” but seriously, sometimes that’s all you can say. Witness this reissue of The Handsome Family’s Singing Bones, an expanded edition of their sixth album … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Jane Yolen’s Ring Out!, Tam Lin, Mother Goose Songbook, The Sleeping Beauty, and Touch Magic
Used bookstores are great places to find those books that you never expected to locate. A recent trip down a street near where we live yielded three books by Jane Yolen, a writer who has been called the American Hans … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, Jane Yolen
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