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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
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper’s Master Sessions, Peter Cooper’s The Lloyd Green Album, Eric Brace & Last Train Home’s Six Songs EP, and various artists’ East Nashville, Vol. 3
There is so much beautiful music on these CDs, especially the first two, that it’s hard to know where to start. The names on the albums belong to Eric Brace and Peter Cooper. (Earlier in 2009 they collaborated on an … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Various artists’ From The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin
There’s no denying that Led Zeppelin is one of the most popular and influential bands of the rock era. It’s staggering to merely ponder the number of garage bands that were put together because some suburban kids loved Led Zep. … Continue reading
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Jeff Beck’s Performing This Week… Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Jeff Beck. Guitar icon. I don’t really know what else to say about him. He’s been the most creative, most humble guitar genius that’s come along. And when I mention him to people these days they say, “Jeff Beck? Who’s … Continue reading
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Tagged blues music, rock and roll
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Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks’ Texas Sheiks
Sometimes the best music is made when friends get together and play their favorite old songs. That’s what happened when Geoff Muldaur pulled together a one-off group he dubbed Texas Sheiks. It started as a way to help Texas singer-songwriter-guitarist … Continue reading
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Richmond Fontaine’s We Used to Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
Between 2007’s melancholy western geography lesson Thirteen Cities and this year’s Richmond Fontaine release, Willy Vlautin’s mother died, and he broke his arm and couldn’t play guitar for a while. When he healed enough to play, he went into a … Continue reading
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Isaac Hayes’s Hot Buttered Soul
Craig Clarke contributed this review. Music legend Isaac Hayes began his career as a session musician and songwriter for Stax Records. (He and partner David Porter wrote “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ” for Sam and Dave.) Hayes’s … Continue reading
Tori Amos’s Live at Montreux, 1991-1992 (CD/DVD set)
Once upon a time, back in the late ’60s or early ’70s, someone used a camera at just the right moment. Pure serendipity, as lucky as it gets: David Crosby’s house in L.A., Joni Mitchell with a guitar, playing and … Continue reading
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Tagged American singer/songwriter
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Gary Lewis & the Playboys’ The Complete Liberty Singles
Gary Lewis, son of “King of Comedy” and Rat Pack member Jerry, had a string of hits and an even larger string of singles in the early to mid 1960s that have mostly been forgotten. But if you were around … Continue reading
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Frank Turner’s Love, Ire & Song
Frank Turner is a rabble-rousing folk-rocker who blends old-school ideals with 21st century sensibilities. This quick-witted, silver-tongued Brit combines the social conscience and wit of Woody Guthrie, the wry populism of Billy Bragg and the anthemic melodies and fist-pumping choruses … Continue reading
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Jay & the Americans’ The Complete United Artists Singles, and Jan & Dean’s The Complete Liberty Singles
Jan & Dean. Jay & the Americans. What do these two acts have in common? Apart from the fact that Collectors’ Choice has just issued collections entitled The Complete … Singles the two groups are linked by a very successful … Continue reading
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