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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
Monsters of Folk’s Monsters of Folk
Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of … well, old music. As in, music from my own youth. It’s been a little hard to avoid, actually, what with the two big releases of the summer — Neil Young’s Archives, … Continue reading
Ilgi’s Isakas Nakts Dziesmas
A new CD from this Latvian folk-rock band is always a cause for celebration. This is the first release we’ve received from Ilgi since we wrote our omnibus review of the band’s rather extensive oeuvre two years ago. As was … Continue reading
Art Tatum’s Piano Starts Here
Craig Clarke contributed this review. Jazz pianist Art Tatum, more than 50 years after his death, still has the power to impress new listeners and wow even the most accomplished pianists. Largely self-taught, Tatum’s style was so original and his … Continue reading
Exene Cervenka’s Somewhere Gone
Poet, artist, spoken-word performer, creative writer, musician and singer, Exene Cervenka is a well-rounded performer and artist. Her first gig, of course, was with the L.A. punk band X, which started in the 1970s and remains active today, doing nearly annual … Continue reading
Shemekia Copeland’s Never Going Back
Never Going Back is Shemekia Copeland’s first release on Telarc Blues, but her fifth album all told. She is the daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland, and she got her start at 16 years of age, opening for … Continue reading
Little Richard’s The Rill Thing, King of Rock and Roll, and The Second Coming
If you only know Little Richard from his preening, queening, prancing appearances on late-night talk shows over the past few years, these three CDs are going to surprise you. If, on the other hand, you know him from his mind-blowing, … Continue reading
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Genticorum’s La Bibournoise and Le Vent du Nord’s Mesdames et Messieurs!
Genticorum plays Quebecois music that displays its connections to Celtic folk music more than most, due largely to the presence of flute on many tunes. This young trio features Pascal Gemme on fiddle, feet and vocals, Alexandre Moulin de Grosbois-Garand … Continue reading
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Buckwheat Zydeco’s Lay Your Burden Down
I thought I had given up on zydeco. I discovered it in the late 1980s in the person of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco. Also at about that time, I was fortunate to see in concert some superb zydeco … Continue reading
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Chris Darrow’s Chris Darrow / Under My Own Disguise
I have been reading Chris Darrow’s name on records from my collection for 40 years. Originally a part of the legendary Kaleidoscope (a favourite of Jimmy Page’s), Darrow has appeared on albums by James Taylor, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Hoyt … Continue reading
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Blackmore’s Night’s Secret Voyage
By way of full disclosure, I should start by admitting that I am GMR’s resident monster fan of Blackmore’s Night. It would take a bad album of epic proportions, so stunning in its badness as to send music lovers worldwide … Continue reading