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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
Ray Materick’s Life and Times
When I was scuffling around playing coffeehouses for bus fare and coffee, back before I even drank coffee, there were some models for me to emulate (or not). One of them was Stan Rogers, and my experiences with Stan will … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, singer-songwriter music
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Matapat’s Petit Fou
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Of the many beautiful regional musics that exist in my native Canada, one of my absolute favourites is traditional Quebecois music. (Incidentally, my number one choice is a variation of this genre, the Metis … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music, world music
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Bourque, Bernard & Lepage’s Matapat
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Bourque, Bernard & Lepage provide something not often seen or heard in a professional group: a foot percussionist. In fact, Benoit Bourque is one of Canada’s finest step dancers. He also uses his feet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music
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Noah Haidu’s Standards III, and John Abercrombie & Andy LaVerne’s Timeline
Here a couple of recent jazz releases of mostly standards — one all new, the other a re-release of a classic. Pianist Noah Haidu keeps going from strength to strength. For the third entry in his fabulous Standards series he … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Eddie Cole’s I Know What’s Going On
Christopher White wrote this review. Eddie Cole has given us a nifty aural gem with I Know What’s Going On. This Aussie singer songwriter and guitarist is ably supported on many tunes by drummer Tony Floyd and on a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, Singer-Songwriter
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Duende Libre’s Invocation
I’m a huge fan of Duende Libre’s 2017 self-titled debut album, and the Seattle trio’s 2018 follow-up Drift so of course I’m all over their latest, Invocation. It’s a superb album of Latin influenced modern piano trio jazz. Duende Libre’s … Continue reading
Poi Rogers’ Twilight Blues
One look at their name will tell you what Poi Rogers is all about. This Santa Cruz based duo tossed the cowboy country western ethos of the Sons of the Pioneers with the warm tropical stylings of Hawaiian style lap … Continue reading
Lydia Loveless’ Somewhere Else
I’ve been following Lydia Loveless since her first CD The Only Man was released on a tiny independent label in 2010, through all of the lazy comparisons to Loretta Lynn and Neko Case, to her signing to major indie Bloodshot … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Michael William Harrison’s First Time ‘Round
If you have liking for good honest folk music, recorded ‘live’ or in its natural form, then this is an album for you. Michael William Harrison grew up in Detroit, and after drifting in and out of country rock bands, … Continue reading
Jed Marum’s The Soul Of A Wanderer
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Jed Marum of Dallas, Texas, really does look like a Texas boy on the cover of The Soul Of A Wanderer. He’s not wearing cowboy clothes, but he IS wearing the shorts appropriate for living … Continue reading