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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
Dolorean’s Violence in the Snowy Fields
No sophomore slump here. In fact, quite the opposite. Dolorean, the Portland, Oregon, based combo fronted by Al James, has followed its 2003 debut Not Exotic with a knockout of a record. Where their previous effort was pared down to … Continue reading
Pink Martini’s Hang On Little Tomato
Pink Martini, the eclectic jazz-classical-Latin-pop combo based in Portland, Oregon, had a surprise worldwide hit with its debut disc Sympathique in the late 1990s. Since then, they’ve had some major lineup changes (one of the lead vocalists, Pepe Raphael, left … Continue reading
Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show, McDonald Theater
Those who are only passingly familiar with the music of Gillian Welch tend to classify her music as bluegrass or old-time or Appalachian. But as she demonstrated on this night, Gillian Welch plays rock music, sometimes disguised as all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Las Rubias Del Nortes’ Rumba Internationale
Las Rubias Del Norte is a Brooklyn-based combo that sings a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all of it with a Latin beat, and with sweet, sweet harmonies. The name, of course, is a bit of … Continue reading
Neck’s here’s mud in yer eye: a Psycho-Ceilídh retrospective
Barkeep, another Guinness please, with a chaser of Irish if you will. Yes, I’ve just listened to far too much really bad Irish and Irish-American music this afternoon while attempting to find one or two discs which our readers won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, rock and roll
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Various artists’ Cropredy Capers
This review was contributed by Paul Brandon. “This is the story of the twenty-five August weekends which led me there — the story of a band falling apart and coming together, of miracles and mishaps, of weather from the sublime … Continue reading
Lhasa’s The Living Road
Lhasa de Sela is a Canadian singer who performs a unique blend of acoustic folk and electronica, sung in the three major languages of the North America: French, Spanish and English. This CD is brimming with passionate melody and rhythm … Continue reading
Amelia’s After All
Amelia is a four-piece combo based in Portland, Oregon, that rose from the ashes of the late-’90s alt-country band the Flatirons, which made one critically lauded album before splitting apart. Guitarist Scott Weddle, drummer Richard Cuellar Jr., and bassist and … Continue reading
Tres Chicas’ Sweetwater
Duos are common in country music, but trios are less so. These three chicas have all made varying marks on the folk and alt-country scenes, and have been getting together for a while to sing and play. Finally this year … Continue reading
K. Sridhar, et al., Raga Madhukauns, Raga Piloo; Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, et al., Raga Piloo
The Indian raga, which has enjoyed variable popularity in the West since the 1970s under the influence of a number of musicians from various backgrounds and, if we may speak of such a thing, “schools” (George Harrison and Terry Riley … Continue reading