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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
Up in The Air’s Moonshine & Gavin Marwick’s The Long Road and the Far Horizon
Gavin Marwick is a talented and prolific Scottish composer and fiddle player. He’s in or has been in bands including Cantrip, Bellevue Rendezvous, Journeyman, Iron Horse, Ceilidh Minogue and Up in the Air. I’ve seen him perform (with Cantrip) and … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick’s Laurie & Kathy Sing the Songs of Vern & Ray
Laurie Lewis has been leaning more toward contemporary folk music lately, as witnessed in her 2013 live recording One Night in May. So I was probably expecting something along those lines when I hit “play” on this new disc. Imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluegrass music
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Arun Ramamurthy Trio’s Jazz Carnatica
I love jazz violin and I love Carnatic music – classical music from the south of India. So I figured I would love this album by Indian jazz violinist Arun Ramamurthy, and I was right. It’s been on heavy rotation … Continue reading
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Tagged Indian music, Jazz music
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Bill Evans’s The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 (vinyl box set)
It’s funny how sometimes the most obscure circumstances can make history. That certainly was the case when the little-known pianist Bill Evans and his trio played these afternoon and evening sets at the Village Vanguard. They were opening for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane’s All of You – The Last Tour 1960
For the completists among fans of Miles Davis and John Coltrane – either or both – this weighty four-CD set of found recordings is mighty interesting. Not any Holy Grail, exactly, but a set that fills in some blanks in … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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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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