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- 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
- 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)
Category Archives: Music
Minor Gold’s Way to the Sun
The sunny Laurel Canyon vibe is what first drew me to Minor Gold’s Way to the Sun, then the sharp songwriting, lovely vocal harmonies, and emotional resonance of the songs pulled me in for a long stay. I was surprised … Continue reading
Fairport Convention’s The Cropredy Box
Pamela Murray Winters contributed this review. A few days ago the Folk Tales staff was discussing whether The Cropredy Box warranted a review. Someone opined that the three-CD set featuring Fairport Convention at its 30th anniversary concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, … Continue reading
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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2007
John O’Regan wrote this review. Fairport Convention’s 40-year career has seen them evolve from a UK equivalent of American West Coast folk-rockers to the inventors of British Folk Rock. To celebrate their 40th anniversary from Thursday August 9 to Saturday … Continue reading
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Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival 1999
Deb Skolnik prepared this for Folk Tales, Green Man Review’s predecessor. If you have been following the English folk music scene for any length of time, particularly in the ’60s, you will not have been able to escape hearing something … Continue reading
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Dino Saluzzi’s El Viejo Caminante
By sheer coincidence, I’ve recently been obsessively listening to Miles Davis’s 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come, in particular the title track. The story of how this lilting waltz in an uncommon key, from Disney’s 1937 Snow White and … Continue reading
Fred Hersch’s The Surrounding Green
There are piano trios, and then there are piano trios. As they say. And this is one of the latter. This program finds three of the best playing a mix of originals and works from the jazz canon with deep … Continue reading
Tom Gershwin’s Wellspring
Vermont trumpeter and composer Tom Gershwin leads a highly sympathetic quintet on the absolutely beautiful album Wellspring. The musicians create such a rich tapestry of sound that at times they sound like a much larger ensemble. Gershwin leads on his … Continue reading
Various artists’ Music From Vietnam Vols. 1-5
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Until relatively recently, the cultural offerings of Vietnam have been not readily available in the West. Isolated for almost a half century by various conflicts, the music and art of these people have only … Continue reading
Tom May’s Vested
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Tom May lives just across the Columbia River from Portland in Vancouver, Washington, here in the great Pacific Northwest. Vested is his tenth album of acoustic folk, and like Minnesota’s Charlie Maguire, he sings regional … Continue reading
Karen Matheson’s Time To Fall
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Those whose ears were open to Celtic music in the ’80s will remember those wonderful Capercaillie LPs: great Scottish dance music dividing the high points of Karen Matheson‘s beautiful vocals. Some songs were traditional Gaelic, … Continue reading