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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
Janis Ian’s Society’s Child: My Autobiography, and Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection
Normally here at the Green Man building we keep books and CDs separate. Oh sure, in every editor’s office the shelves are filled with both, and down in the jungle where the writers dwell the floors are littered with CDs … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music
Tagged Americana music, folk music, music, Singer-Songwriter
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Darren Black’s Thinkers & Fools
Mike Wilson submitted this review. Thinkers & Fools is the second album from burgeoning British songwriting talent Darren Black. With a style that boasts firmly established folk roots, Black chooses his collaborators carefully to bolster this inclination. Joining Black here … Continue reading
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere’s Nudge It Up a Notch, and Eddie Floyd’s Eddie Loves You So
Stax Records re-introduced itself to the world with a series of brilliant retrospective CDs celebrating their long history. We’ve seen a two-disc history of their biggest hits, Stax artists doing Motown and the Beatles, and now Stax has brought out … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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Various artists’ Soulsville Sings Hitsville, and Stax Does the Beatles
Stax Records was Motown’s southern competition in the soul music race back in the ’60s and ’70s. Both companies had similar approaches to recording, featured singers backed by a house band, and sweetened with production values that proved to be … Continue reading
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Tagged rhythm 'n' blues, rock and roll, soul music
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Captain Bogg & Salty’s Bedtime Stories For Pirates, Pegleg Tango, and Prelude To Mutiny
There are certain adventurers, bold and ruthless men who face the most dangerous foes – bored schoolchildren – and manage to bait them into laughing hysterically. They venture into the sacred precincts of libraries and deliberately make noise. They fearlessly … Continue reading
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Tagged pirates, rock and roll
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Various artists’ Old Wine, New Skins
There has been a growing movement in recent years to showcase genre music in the hands of non-genre artists — or at least artists in another genre. Rod Stewart tried his hand at Cole Porter and his ilk (scary). Pat … Continue reading
Casey Neill’s Brooklyn Bridge
I think we have a copy of every CD available from this awesome singer-songwriter. You can certainly find other glowing reviews of his work on GMR (see, for example, Cat’s write-up of Live on 11th Street and Camille’s of a … Continue reading
Aonghas Grant’s The Hills Of Glengarry
Though born in Edinburgh, Aonghas Grant was brought up in Fort Augustus in the Scottish Highlands. He mastered the highland fiddle style as a boy, without lessons but by osmosis of the plentiful musical sounds that surrounded him. It is … Continue reading
Willie Nelson’s One Hell of a Ride
Willie Nelson’s music has been repackaged and rereleased repeatedly almost since he began recording more than 50 years ago. His legacy has been re-assessed many times, and doubtless will continue to be reappraised for some time to come, because he … Continue reading
Crooked Still’s Shaken by a Low Sound
Crooked Still is marketed as an alt-country or an Americana group, depending on who the target audience is perceived to be. Damn marketers! Like The Sevens, the Red Clay Ramblers, and The Duhks, what you have here is the rather … Continue reading