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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: Music
Phil Ochs’s The Early Years
No’am Newman wrote this review. Phil Ochs was one of the top folk protest singers in the US during the 1960s who never really became famous outside of his own field; in the ’70s he seemed to run out of … Continue reading
The Bluegrass Patriots’ Springtime in the Rockies
Mike Stiles wrote this review. Here’s one that goes right down into the roots of bluegrass. The Patriots are Dan Mitchell (fiddle), Glenn Zankey (guitar), Danny Rogers (standup bass), Ken Seaman (banjo), and Willie McDonald (mandolin). Everyone sings, too. Whether … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluegrass music
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Magpie Lane’s A Taste of Ale
I must confess I find it very hard to be impartial about this one. In choosing to fill a whole CD with songs about one of my favourite subjects, English beer, Magpie Lane has surely won my heart. Magpie Lane … Continue reading
Various artists’ What’s That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs
Dean MacPherson wrote this review. Richard Thompson has one. Kurt Weill has a couple of them. Hell, even Mickey Mouse has a tribute album, so it’s about time somebody put together a collection of Phil Ochs cover tunes. Ochs, though … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Michael Kaeshammer’s Tell You How I Feel, and No Strings Attached
Christopher White wrote this review. Michael Kaeshammer (pronounced case-hammer) is a young … 25 or so … German-Canadian piano player with what might be dubbed post-neo-retro trad jazz sensibilities. And exceptionally prodigious chops. A child prodigy, he studied classical piano … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Various artists’ Hula Blues: Vintage Steel Guitar Instrumentals from the ’30s and ’40s
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. About a decade ago I was turned on to the wonderful musical possibilities of the lap steel guitar. It’s basically a slab of wood (or occasionally cast metal) with six to 10 strings, tuned … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Hawaiian music
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NRBQ’s Dummy
NRBQ is one of the longest-lasting rock bands in history, and while they’ve never had a hit, they’ve made almost uniformly strong records for their entire career. Started as the New Rhythm & Blues Quintet (later Quartet) in 1967, the … Continue reading
Dan Bern & the IJBC’s Fleeting Days
Listening to the big guy’s new CD laying in bed the one his producer thinks he never shoulda made but it gets me going gets me into the shower what a shock to be awake at this early hour Dan … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll, Singer-Songwriter
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Ry Cooder’s My Name Is Buddy
Subtitled “another record by Ry Cooder” My Name Is Buddy is the second album in a planned trilogy in which Cooder searches for the old weird America that the guitarist knows is still there, buried somewhere under our modern society. … Continue reading
John Sebastian’s John B. Sebastian, Tarzana Kid, and Welcome Back
John Sebastian’s combo The Lovin’ Spoonful was a folk-pop crossover in the mid-1960s, but by 1968 he was ready to strike out on his own. He had been around the New York folk scene since the early years of the … Continue reading
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