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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
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
Kristine Heebol’s 10 Point and Henrik Jansberg’s Omnivor
These CDs arrived in the same small package — I love international deliveries! They often use interesting wrapping materials, many are hand-addressed, and of course they are liberally ornamented with wonderful, exotic postage stamps. We are well-known to all the … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, folk-rock, Nordic music
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Mrs. Etta Baker, Family and Friends’ Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians
Christopher Conder submitted this review. Another fine re-release from the Tradition Years series, these field recordings were made by Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy and Paul Clayton in the summer of 1956. Recorded in Virginia and North Carolina, each of these … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, traditional music
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Riders In The Sky’s Public Cowboy #1: A Centennial Salute to the Music of Gene Autry
Gene Autry was one of my childhood idols. We reviewed his Essential CD set, his name came up in our review of Douglas Green’s book on Singing Cowboys, and he was very much the key behind the music reviewed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Various artists’ John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Brittanica
Objectivity be damned, it just can’t be done! When presented with a collection of tracks dubbed Dark Britannica, comprising two CDs that when purchased entitles you to 33 extra downloadable tracks (the equivalent of two more CDs), which collectively prove … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music, English folk rock
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MusiCares Presents: A Tribute to Brian Wilson
Just before the 2005 Grammy Awards a “star-studded gala took place in Los Angeles.” It was the MusiCares 2005 Person of the Year Awards, and the winner was Brian Wilson. Beach Boy extraordinaire, composer of the surf and hot-rod songs … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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