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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
Warren Zevon’s Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Warren Zevon’s songs, like the man himself, alternated between sincere and heavily ironic, sometimes within the same song. Heck, within the same verse. My response to this 2007 New West release does the same thing. Ironic summary: Four years after … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Asleep at the Wheel and Leon Rausch’s It’s A Good Day
Leon Rausch was lead singer with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in that band’s later years, starting in 1958. He was again enlisted as lead vocalist when Wills’s widow reformed the band as Bob Wills’ Original Texas Playboys in … Continue reading
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Dalla’s Cribbar
Dalla are a 4 piece dance band specialising in Cornish ‘Celtic’ dance music. They are based in Redruth, Cornwall. If you are dancer who enjoys the odd schottishe, furry, kabm pymp, etc, you’ll know what you are doing more than … Continue reading
My Cousin, The Emperor’s The Subway EPs
As I write this, the Brooklyn-based band My Cousin, The Emperor is playing at the South By Southwest music industry showcase in Austin, Texas. Although a lot of people I know are there, and some may even be in the … Continue reading
Lorne MacDougall’s Hello World
Scotland, like Ireland, is proud of its heritage and traditional music, and quite rightly so. It takes its music and musicians seriously and pays them homage. Lorne MacDougall is a piper, and not just any piper — he is brilliant! … Continue reading
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Chieftains’ Tears of Stone
Tears of Stone from 1999 is, apart from just one track, quite brilliant. It starts with Brenda Fricker narrating with Anuna on “Never Give All the Heart”. It’s a superb starting track that sets the mood. This is followed by … Continue reading
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Chieftains’ From the beginning: The Chieftains 1 to 4
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. The Chieftains were one of the first modern Celtic music bands. Although completely traditional in material and instrumentation (even to point of eschewing any guitar or piano), they were one of the first bands to … Continue reading
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Chieftains at the Scene Pavilion
Wendy Donahue wrote this lovely review. Ah, summer…that wonderful time of year during which music enthusiasts rejoice at the proliferation of outdoor concerts, multiplying the options for taking in a good show many times over. I was fortunate enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Chieftains, Irish music
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The Chieftains’ An Irish Evening & The Long Black Veil
Maria Nutick wrote this review. I expect that die-hard Chieftains fans are already in possession of these DVDs; on the off chance that anyone has missed these two releases, they make a wonderful addition to any Chieftains collection. An Irish … Continue reading
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Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner’s Tickled Pink
This is Lynne and Pat Turner’s fourth album. On it they demonstrate that they are two ladies who are game for a laugh and have lost none of their panache for confronting, head-on, the experiences that life can bring and … Continue reading
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