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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
Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel’s Willie And The Wheel
Boy, talk about your instant classics. For the past 30 years or more, Ray Benson’s ensemble Asleep at the Wheel has been the standard-bearer of western swing music; and of course for even longer than that, Willie Nelson has exemplified … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Le Vent du Nord’s A Part du Feu
Those prolific fellows in Le Vent du Nord are back again with another album, following on the heels of last year’s live set Mesdames et messieurs! On La Part de Feu they incorporate a few ideas from other avenues of … Continue reading
Fairport Convention’s Live At Cropredy ’08 and Fame And Glory
It’s almost tempting to use the old “waiting for a bus” analogy — you wait a while for a new Fairport CD and then two come along at once. These discs are quite different from each other in many respects, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cropredy Festival, English folk rock, Fairport Convention
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Blackie and the Rodeo Kings’ Swinging From the Chains of Love
Colin Linden. Tom Wilson. Stephen Fearing. Together these three solo artists become Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. Separately or together, they make some of the most exciting music coming out of the Great White North these days. Linden is recovering … Continue reading
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Ilgi’s Ej Tu Dejot
This CD is the latest offering from this energetic and imaginative Latvian folk-rock band. We got everything else they’ve recorded (see my reviews of Kaza Kapa Debesis and Isakas Nakts Dziesmas) and listen to them often and with great pleasure. … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, folk-rock, latvian folk music, world music
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Phil Hardy’s Revisited
Phil Hardy makes whistles. Really. He has a company called Kerrywhistles that sells two styles of low whistle, known as the Chieftain and the Kerry, designed and made by Phil Hardy. His website suggests that a number of artists well-known … Continue reading
Charlie Louvin’s Steps To Heaven
Charlie Louvin released a self-titled comeback album in 2007. It was his first one in 10 years. Alongside Charlie were guests Elvis Costello, George Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Tom T. Hall, Tift Merritt, Marty Stuart and others. He was in his … Continue reading
Ry Cooder’s The UFO Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology
Ry Cooder has already had two different “best of” collections, Why Don’t You Try Me and River Rescue (and the movie music set Music By …) and the hungry Cooder collector has been dying for a collection that presented rare … Continue reading
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Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies’ Northern Echoes: Live On The Tyne
Mike Wilson contributed this review. Jez Lowe returned to the Northeast of England earlier this year with a series of concerts that presented songs from his repertoire that were influenced and inspired by the region’s people and places. This recording … Continue reading
Various artists’ The Future of the Blues
We get a lot of blues CDs here at Green Man Review. We get singer-songwriters, and British folk, and singer-songwriters, a bunch of Americana, and some singer-songwriters, roots music, but we also get a lot of blues. Blues is a … Continue reading