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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
Category Archives: Music
Red Dog Green Dog’s Good Afternoon, This is Roughly Speaking
Wow. Get this disc now! You’ll be dancing to a twisted, psychedelic mixture of bagpipes, accordion and hurdy gurdy that’s written after the French folk dancing music tradition. It’s great, man. You won’t be disappointed! Oh, OK, that’s right, here … Continue reading
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Tagged Franco music
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Nancy McCallion and The Mollys’ Trouble
Disclosure: I’m a long time Molly’s fan! Live, recorded, whatever, I’m there. There’s something about the world-weary defiance, the determination to feel joy — or at least pleasure — in The Mollys’ music, that warms the soul. For the unitiated, … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Tex Mex music
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Jackalope’s Dances with Rabbits
Let me start this review off by saying that most of what the musician who created Jackalope, R. Carlos Nakai, plays leaves me terribly bored. Yes, bored. Bored quite stiff. Even the other Jackalope albums that I’ve heard over the … Continue reading
Maddy Prior and June Tabor’s Silly Sisters and No More to the Dance
Take two of English folk music’s most phenomenal female vocalists, a lineup of backing musicians drawn from the best the field has to offer, and some terrific songs, and what do you get? Everything you could hope for from a … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music
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Sarah Vaughan’s Live at Rosy’s
Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan and her trio booked a run at Rosy’s Jazz Club in New Orleans in May 1978. The renowned producer Tim Owens recorded two sets of that run for National Public Radio’s weekly syndicated program Jazz Alive! and … Continue reading
Richmond Fontaine’s You Can’t Go Back if There’s Nothing To Go Back To
Richmond Fontaine is capping a 22-year career as Portland, Oregon’s top alt-country band with one of its best albums. You Can’t Go Back if There’s Nothing To Go Back To is the band’s 11th studio album and intended to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Sequentia and Dialogos’ Chant Wars
Sequentia, led by Benjamin Bagby, has been performing Medieval music for close to thirty years. Dialogos, led by Katarina Livljanic, has only been around ten years, but has earned considerable esteem among Medieval music afficionados during that time. These two groups … Continue reading
Medieval Baebes’ Worldes Blysse
Ian Walden wrote this review which ran, I think, on Roots and Branches. Cover art for “Worldes Blysse”I couldn’t get this CD at recent Medieval Baebes concerts I attended – apparently because sales at the concert don’t count towards their … Continue reading
Talisman’s Music of Russian Princesses: From the Court of Catherine the Great
When one hears the phrase “Russian Classical Music”, one thinks perhaps of the ballets of Tchaikovsky with their searing drama and heartbreaking grace. One thinks of the piano concertos of Rachmaninov, with their wondrous lyricism and blazing virtuosic demands on … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, Czarist Russia, women composers
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Nap Eyes’ Thought Rock Fish Scale
Nap Eyes is an indie-rock quartet out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their new album Thought Rock Fish Scale is a tuneful, catchy trip through the kind of angst that might trouble a young biochemist obsessed with guitars, words and rock … Continue reading