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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
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- 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
The Band from County Hell’s Ghosts & Spirits
Christopher White wrote this review. The Band from County Hell website tells us that the eight-piece (plus or minus) group was formed in 1995 by its front man, Glasgow native Steven “Jock” McClelland. McClelland and his wife Julie are responsible … Continue reading
Richard Thompson’s Front Parlour Ballads
A new release from Richard Thompson is always an occasion, although this one is perhaps a bit less so than most. For an “aging folk-rocker,” Mr. Thompson is in the midst of an extraordinarily productive period. Freed from the constraints … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock music, Richard Thompson
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Steven Posch’s Radio Paganistan: Folktales of the Urban Witches
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The stories in Radio Paganistan were “recorded live at the fullness of the Hunter’s Moon 2002, by the enchanted garden, near the waters of Mississippi, West Paganistan.” I think that should tell you pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, folklore, spoken word
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Le Vent Du Nord’s Les Amants Du Saint-Laurent and La Volute’s Descendez A Gaspé
While both of these recordings were made by Québec folk musicians, the resulting music displays some differences. Le Vent Du Nord (meaning North Wind) is a band composed of Benoît Bourque (a multi-instrumentalist who appears on accordion, mandolin, jaw harp … Continue reading
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Tagged quebecois music
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Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas’s Fire & Grace
We get the loveliest things here at Green Man, often without any clue that they are coming! Fire & Grace, the latest CD from Alasdair Fraser, who’s perhaps the best Scottish fiddler ever, arrived in the post this week. Fraser … Continue reading
Dick Smith’s Woozy
The band behind one of my favorite CDs of 2002, Dick Smith, is back. Woozy, their third release, finds the Illinois-based trio becoming a quartet, and still making delirious acoustic music about life on the fringes. The addition to the … Continue reading
Miles Davis’s Ascenseur pour l’echafaud
This is a one-of-a-kind album, an audio documentary of the making of a movie soundtrack by Miles Davis, as he was poised on the brink of his big popular breakthrough. Davis was in France for a brief tour with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Film Noir, Jazz music, soundtrack
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Daniel Lanois’ Belladonna
Daniel Lanois has been known chiefly in the past for his recording work with other artists. He was producer on career-reviving records by two mature, established artists: Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy in 1989 and a decade later Time Out of … Continue reading
Ion Petre Stoican’s Sounds From A Bygone Age, Vol. 1
This record has quite a back-story. Ion Petre Stoican was a relatively unknown musician in the lively Bucharest scene of the 1970s. He had played professionally, particularly for weddings and such, in a port town for some 15 years, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, music
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Jolie Holland’s Springtime Can Kill You
Two of the most stunningly original female singer-songwriters in today’s field of American music are both recording for Los Angeles’ independent label Anti-: Neko Case and Jolie Holland. And both redheads have new albums out in 2006, which makes it … Continue reading