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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
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon’s Soul Call (Om Namo Narayanaya)
It is tempting to lead with this release’s fascinating backstory. But the music is even better. I hope it was more the music than the story that led to its nomination for a 2010 Grammy in the Best Contemporary World … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Pete Coe’s Backbone
Pete Coe comes with a huge reputation as one of the finest traditional singers on the folk circuit at this time. Certainly, he is one of the most influential and hard working performers I have ever seen and heard. He … Continue reading
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Greg Bear’s Hull Zero Three
Prolific hard-sci-fi author Greg Bear has come up with another winner with Hull Zero Three. It’s a space opera of sorts that pits a handful of human and humanoid characters against their ship, which has somehow gone rogue. Some of … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s Scattered
Scattered is the Handsome Family’s second collection of demos, B sides, covers and the like. The first was 2002’s Smothered And Covered. This new disc has a generous 19 tracks, fairly evenly divided between covers and originals. The covers include … Continue reading
Steeleye Span’s Sails of Silver
Absent friends Bob Johnson and Peter Knight may have returned to the fold, but the sound is new and unique. From the opening chords onward – crisp, smooth, and electric – you know that this is not your first-generation Steeleye … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, rock and roll
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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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Tagged rock and roll
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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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Tagged Americana music, blues music
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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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Tagged Americana music
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