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- 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
- 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
Category Archives: Music
Various artists’ Arctic Paradise: Contemporary Finnish Folk Music 2001-2002
Judith Gennett penned this review. Finland, with only 5 1/2 million people, is home to Linux, Nokia, and a lot of amazing music. Arctic Paradise is a free promotional sampler series devised by the Finnish Music Information Center to introduce the … Continue reading
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Tagged Finnish music, Nordic music
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Steven Graves’ Captain Soul
I’ve listened to the first several CDs from Steven Graves, and enjoyed them. His musical direction was clearly a work in progress – it moved and tightened up, becoming a little more defined with each release. With his seventh release, … Continue reading
The Dylan Project’s Caught in the Convent
This is pure nostalgia for me. The first review I ever wrote for Green Man Review was a piece on a live performance by the Dylan Project in a small club in Oford, UK. The they were a new act on the … Continue reading
Stefan Aeby Trio’s To the Light
Swiss pianist Stefan Aeby and his trio’s third outing, their first on the German label Intakt, is a largely low-key affair that, to me, reflects the current holding-its-breath mood of much of the Western world. The Trio’s Utopia was one … Continue reading
Haugaard & Høirup’s Light
This album, Lys in Danish, won three Danish Music Awards (the “Danish Grammys”) in 2002, for Best Folk Album, Best Folk Artist (traditional), and Best Folk Instrumentalist (Harald Haugaard), and as they say on their Web site, “we are very, … Continue reading
Gillian Welch’s Boots No. 1, the Official Revival Bootleg
Gillian Welch is marking the 20th anniversary of her inaugural release Revival with a two-disc set of alternate versions, outtakes and demos from that album’s recording sessions. I’d rather have a new Gillian Welch release, but speaking as a fan, … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Morton Feldman’s The Viola In My Life
I remarked once upon a time that Morton Feldman’s music fills space. Listening to the sections of The Viola In My Life, I realize that Feldman does rather more than fill space: he shapes it, gives it duration and form, … Continue reading
Blazin’ Fiddles’ Blazin’ Fiddles Live
When our Editor and Publisher (also known as “the Chief”) first broached the idea of my reviewing a Blazin’ Fiddles release, I was hesitant. “A whole orchestra?” said I. “Of fiddles?” (Well, that’s what he said it was.) Somehow I … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Scottish music
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Various artists, People Take Warning!: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square, 2007)
Daddy please don’t go down in that hole today, for my dreams do come true sometimes you know. Oh, don’t leave me daddy, please don’t go away. Something bad sure will happen, do not go.’ – Explosion in the Fairmount Mine, … Continue reading
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What’s New for the 1st of January: music from Sunas, banana French toast, music in fiction and other matters…
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? Robert Burns Shhh… We need to be more than just a wee bit quieter than usual as a lot of the residents of … Continue reading →