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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
Various artists’ Moody Bluegrass Two … Much Love
Moody Bluegrass Two … Much Love is a followup to the Grammy nominated 2004 Moody Bluegrass. I haven’t heard the original release, but I suspect this one is much the same, and fans of the first should find much to … Continue reading
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Various artists’ This One’s For Him – A Tribute to Guy Clark
(I reviewed this tribute to Guy Clark in 2011. It seems appropriate to re-post it, in light of Mr. Clark’s death on May 17.) Guy Clark is the best country songwriter living. I feel confident saying that since the passing … Continue reading
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Gothard Sisters’ Story Girl
Story Girl is the sixth album and latest release from The Seattle-based trio, The Gothard Sisters. The other week I had the pleasure of reviewing the The Gothard Sisters’ Christmas album and I wondered at the time what else they were … Continue reading
Kaivama’s Kaivama
Kaivama, which is fiddler Sara Pajunen and guitarist Jonathan Rundman, is making big waves in the Finnish-American cultural community of the upper Midwest. She’s from Minnesota, he’s a Yuper (that’s a native of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula), they’ve only been together … Continue reading
Andy Statman’s Old Brooklyn
My introduction to Andy Statman is intimately associated with my introduction to Brooklyn. On the first night of my first visit to New York, visiting a friend who was living in Brooklyn in 2002, I attended a jazz clarinet performance … Continue reading
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Stanley Turrentine’s Don’t Mess With Mister T
Don’t Mess With Mister T was Stanley Turrentine’s final disc as a member of Creed Taylor’s CTI stable, a run that started in 1970 with the highly regarded Sugar. He continued recording for numerous other jazz labels in a career … Continue reading
Stanley Turrentine’s Salt Song
This is another of the Masterworks Jazz reissued discs in honor of the 40th anniversary of Creed Taylor’s CTI label. Turrentine, always a prolific tenor saxophonist, recorded seven discs for CTI between 1970 and 1973; Salt Song was recorded and … Continue reading
Cass Meurig and Nial Cain’s Deuawd
A crwth is a very odd Welsh instrument indeed. Think of it as a fiddle that went seriously weird as you can see from this description: [T]he crwth is a medieval bowed lyre and ranks as one of Wales’ most … Continue reading
The Decemberists’ Live At Bull Moose
Very early in their tour in support of the 2011 release The King Is Dead The Decemberists recorded this seven-track EP during a live in-store appearance at Bull Moose music store in Scarborough, Maine, a suburb of what frontman Colin … Continue reading
The Decemberists’ The King Is Dead
One truism of the record-reviewing business is that the final track on an album often forecasts an artist’s next step. When The Decemberists released The King Is Dead in early 2011, it was immediately apparent that this album followed that … Continue reading