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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
Riley Walker’s Primrose Green
At a time when lots of musicians are reviving the glories of the analog synthesizer (including both Calexico and the Decemberists this year), Ryley Walker is going even farther back into the depths of rock history. This Rockville, Illinois, native … Continue reading
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Jens Fossum’s BassDetector
Every time I think the thought “I’m not really a fan of …” whatever, something comes along to change my mind. In the case of the genre called funk, it’s this amazing release from the German jazz and world music … Continue reading
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Tagged Funk music, Jazz music, Nordic jazz
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Todd Grebe & Cold Country’s Citizen
It’s pretty common for a classic or even alternative country musician to make an occasional (or even permanent) foray into bluegrass. Think of Dolly Parton on the one hand and Robert Earl Keen on the other. But it’s a little … Continue reading
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April Verch’s The Newpart
For her 10th album, former fiddle prodigy April Verch presents a generous collection of music from across the spectrum of fiddle tunes, hillbilly songs, and folk music from all over North America and beyond. The native of Canada’s Ottawa Valley … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Canadian folk music, folk dance
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Elina Duni Quartet’s Dallëndyshe
The Elina Duni Quartet returns with its second outing on ECM, asumptuous and stirring follow-up to 2012’s Matanë Malit. ComprisingAlbanian-born, Swiss-raised singer Duni, Colin Vallon on piano, Patrice Moret, bass, and Norbert Pfammater, drums, the quartet has raised to a … Continue reading
Sound Bites — Francophone folk and rock roundup
North America has a sizable contingent of French speakers, including much of the Canadian province of Quebec, and much of southern Louisiana. The two regions are connected by history, too; the ancestors of the Louisiana Cajuns were driven out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Cajun music, music, quebecois music
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Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith
It would be easy to say that a collaboration between Steeleye Span and Terry Pratchett was always inevitable, given their respective histories and their proclaimed admiration of each other’s work. It may be an example of retrospective inevitability now that … Continue reading
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Tagged Discworld, English folk music, Steeleye Span, Terry Pratchett
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June Tabor and The Oysterband’s freedom and rain ’91 tour sampler
If it can be said that the tour programmes such as the one done for Steeleye Span’s 40th Anniversary Tour 2009 are ephemera, as they are one-offs that virtually are unobtainable after the tour ends, then the radio world has … Continue reading
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Wes Montgomery’s In The Beginning
Wes Montgomery was a self-taught guitarist from Indianapolis – not exactly a hotbed of jazz – who went on to become one of the most influential and popular players in the mid-20th century. Who knows what he might have accomplished … Continue reading
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Steeleye Span’s Mummers Play
Seeking out the early history of folk traditions can be rife with problems. The further back one goes, the less clear can become the timeline of the custom’s development. Just try finding the definitive history of Morris dancing, for example! … Continue reading
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