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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
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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Mary Humphreys and Anahata’s Floating Verses
Floating Verses is a gem of a CD — traditional English folk tunes played and sung by people who actually know how to play and sing and who have the scholarly background to know what they’re playing and singing. What … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music
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Teddy Thompson’s Upfront & Down Low
Those unfamiliar with his family history might be surprised that Teddy Thompson chose to do an album of country covers. But given the fondness of his parents — that’d be Richard and Linda Thompson — for American country standards, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, country music
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Linda Thompson’s Versatile Heart
Linda Thompson could be forgiven for a slight lack of thematic and sonic variety on her 2002 album Fashionably Late and she was, by reviewers and fans alike who were overjoyed at her first new recording in nearly 20 years. … Continue reading
Isambarde’s Barnstorming
If ever an album had a good title, ‘Barnstorming’ is it! This is only the second album from Isambarde and it can only serve to put them up amongst the cream of the acoustic folk bands in the world – … Continue reading
Johnny Duhan’s Just Another Town
Mike Wilson penned this review. Johnny Duhan is one of the few songwriters who can move me to tears with just one well-placed, exquisitely written line. This 2007 release contains countless such lines. The title track of this album alone … Continue reading