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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
Cullivoe Band’s Willie’s Last Session
Imagine old friends getting together to play one last session, nine days before one of their members passes on from cancer. Folks who have an ease of playing together that can only come with the years. This is that album, … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Nordic music, scandinavian music, Scottish music, Shetland Isles music
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J.J.Cale’s The Lost Session DVD
The modern rock video has become a monster. It is now about image and sex, and the music is secondary. When The Beatles created what might arguably be the first rock videos (“Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever”) they were attempting to … Continue reading
Ken MacLeod’s The Restoration Game
It’s extremely difficult to say much about this book without going into spoilers. And yet MacLeod takes the admirably nervy step of hitting you with the ultimate spoiler himself, starting on the third page of the preface — before the … Continue reading
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Tagged Political Thriller, science fiction
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Lara St. John’s re: Bach
Craig Clarke wrote this review for us. Sex sells, and I suppose it was time that someone in the classical music industry figured that out. Female violinists generally get the focus of this attention, so it should have been no surprise … Continue reading
Liz Carroll and various artists’ Ireland, Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, The Music
On St. Patrick’s Day 2015, an exhibit called “IRELAND: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690–1840” opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was accompanied by music, the music on this CD, developed by one of Chicago’s most beloved Irish … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish culture, Irish music
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Various Artists’ Folk Music in Sweden series
During the 1950s and 1960s there was a lot of field recording taking place in Sweden and the Swedish speaking parts of Finland. A generation of source singers and musicians were growing very old and the effort was directed at … Continue reading
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Tagged candinavian folk music, Nordic folk music, Swedish folk music
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Eli West’s The Both
This release combines the talents of some of my favorite musical discoveries of the past couple of years, starting with Eli West. I first learned of the Seattle-based roots musician through his 2014 release with Cahalen Morrison, I’ll Swing My … Continue reading
Warren Zevon’s Recordings
Now that I am dead my agent finally said he wanted to have lunch with me Now that I’m deceased my record sales increased I’m making lots of royalties I’m a composer decomposing I’m on the rocker’s roll of fame … Continue reading
Warden Zevon’s The Wind
Will you stay with me to the end?When there’s nothing left / But you and me and the wind… I don’t believe I’ve ever before cried when preparing a review, but Warren Zevon finally did it to me. With The Wind, his … Continue reading
Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon died in 2003, within a week of Johnny Cash. While he was nowhere near the cultural icon that Cash was, Zevon was one of the most important voices in popular music in the second half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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