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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
Stan Getz Quartet’s Live At Montreux 1972
Stan Getz’s audiences must have been a little confused when he rolled out the songs he played at Montreux in July 1972. Most of his program was made up of songs he and his new quartet had recorded that March, … Continue reading
Thompson’s Family
Fans of Richard and Linda Thompson have been waiting for them to record together again since they broke up more than 30 years ago. I suppose a reunion of sorts became inevitable when two of their offspring, Teddy and Kami, … Continue reading
Cahalen Morrison & Country Hammer’s The Flower of Muscle Shoals
Fresh off his earlier 2014 release with Eli West I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both My Hands Seattle’s Cahalen Morrison moves easily from old-time and Appalachian music to a classic country-western sound with his band Country Hammer on The Flower … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Aallotar’s In Transit
Aallotar is a new duo making contemporary Finnish folk music. Finnish-American fiddler Sara Pajunen (who I previously knew from two albums cut with American guitarist Jonathan Rundman in Kaivama) and Finnish accordionist Teija Niku (Polka Chicks) met in early 2013 … Continue reading
Cory Branan’s The No-Hit Wonder
Cory Branan’s The No-Hit Wonder is a bracing reminder of what a superb songwriter and performer he is. A Tennessee native who records on the Chicago indie label Bloodshot, Branan comfortably wraps himself in a patchwork Americana quilt that’s equal … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-country music, Americana music
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Richard Thompson’s Acoustic Classics
Richard Thompson’s style and competence as a solo performance have evolved a lot in just the past 20 years, and even more since he broke up with his former wife and singing partner Linda Thompson and set out on his … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, folk-rock, Richard Thompson
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Locust Honey String Band’s Never Let Me Cross Your Mind
What?! Another youthful string band? Yes, and to my ears this one rises above most of its peers. Here’s the short version: Fourteen songs in the old-time Appalachian tradition, sung in two- and three-part harmony by young women who also … Continue reading
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Ataloft’s Ataloft
After about 20 years fronting the alt-country band Frog Holler, singer and songwriter Darren Schlappich has gone off on a side project to record some songs that don’t quite fit that band’s mold. The new band is called Ataloft, after … Continue reading
Cannonball Adderley’s The Black Messiah
Three and forty years after it was recorded, this amazing set of live jazz by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet is seeing its first release on CD. It’s a revealing snapshot of where jazz and especially Adderley were in those heady … Continue reading
Bumper Jacksons’ Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In
Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In is jazz of a populist kind, blending all sorts of Americana influences into a sweet, funky stew. The Bumper Jacksons at their core are two vibrant, multi-talented musicians from different backgrounds. Jess Eliot Myhre … Continue reading
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