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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
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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Tagged Americana music
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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
Jolie Holland’s The Living and the Dead
Now, here is an excellent example of a record label doing all the right things. The artist in question is Jolie Holland, and the label is the So-Cal indie, Anti-. Holland is an idiosyncratic artist with a strong musical vision … Continue reading
Carlos del Junco’s Steady Movin’, Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers’ Inside Tracks, and Taj Mahal’s Maestro
“Everybody wants to know Why I sing the blues Yes, I say everybody wanna know Why I sing the blues Well, I’ve been around a long time I really have paid my dues…” This song is one of BB King’s … Continue reading
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Old Crow Medicine Show’s Tennessee Pusher
Mike Wilson contributed this review. The five-piece Old Crow Medicine Show take an old-time American roots sound and give it a contemporary makeover, in much the same way that Gram Parsons did with country music some 40 years ago. Built … Continue reading
La Musgaña’s Lubicán, Las Seis Tentaciones, En Concierto, y Temas Profanos
These four CDs represent a good sampling of the recorded output from this talented Castilian Spanish folk ensemble. The other three CDs they’ve done over the years (La Musgaña, 1988; El Paso de la Estantigua, 1989; and El Diablo Cojuelo, … Continue reading
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand
Just before I popped Raising Sand in and uploaded it to my music library, I mentioned in my blog that I was going to review it. Two people responded immediately, and they couldn’t be more different: age, political leanings, upbringings, … Continue reading