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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
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
Blowzabella’s Octomento
Now here’s something we haven’t see in far too long a time – a new recording by Blowzabella. Their 1990 recording Vanilla was their most recent one. A true English dance band, Blowzabella was also a prolific producer of albums … Continue reading
Otis Taylor’s Recapturing the Banjo
“If you ask the average person where they think the five-string banjo originated, the chances are that they would say it came from Kentucky or North Carolina …” (Dick Weissman, from the liner notes.) Well, Green Man reader, you’re an … Continue reading
Jacob Moon’s The Loop and This Christmas
It’s a brave person indeed who releases two CDs at the same time. But these two from Canadian musician Jacob Moon could not be more different. One is a Christmas album, and the other is a record of a typical … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian singer-songwriter, Winter Holiday music
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Maury Muehleisen’s Gingerbreadd and Before the Ever Since
Maury Muehleisen? Who he? He was Jim Croce’s guitar-playing accompanist, and the guy who made Big Bad Jim sound the way he did. He was killed in the same plane crash that killed Croce, on September 20, 1973. His music … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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Ilgi’s Kaza Kapa Debesis and Laimas Muzykanti’s Orkla Bolss
UPE is a Latvian music label founded in 1997. It looks like the first CD we received from these folks was Dudas Latvija back in the summer of 2001. That magnificent collection of bagpipe music led us to Ilgi, a … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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