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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
Darrell Scott’s Theatre of the Unheard and Live in NC
Christopher Conder wrote this review. Theatre of the Unheard is a particularly significant release in Kentucky-born Darrell Scott‘s oeuvre. First recorded in 1991, it was, in Scott’s own words, the first time he found his ‘ “voice” as a writer’. … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel
The idea of making an opera out of a fairy tale was not unique to Engelbert Humperdinck (this is the nineteenth-century composer I’m talking about, not the mid-twentieth century crooner). Actually, in the case of Hansel und Gretel, it wasn’t … Continue reading
Sussie Nielsen’s Day Is Dawning
I confess that I have a weakness for good female voices. So it is no wonder I fell in love with the voice of Sussie Nielsen when I heard her singing with her group Flax in Bloom at the Skagen … Continue reading
Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie’s Hungry Ghosts
Every Wednesday night at the Edgewater Pub and Bistro in Comox, B.C., Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie take the stage to play some old blues and regale the audience with tales about the songs and singers they pay tribute to. … Continue reading
Henry Marten’s Ghost’s High On Spirits
I had the pleasure of reviewing Henry Marten’s Ghost’s previous album Ireland – A Troubled Romance here on GMR in 2002. I reviewed it very favourably. High on Spirits is the band’s latest album and really it carries on from … Continue reading
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