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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
Neko Case’s The Tigers Have Spoken
A live album often signals either contractual obligation for a musical act that’s treading water, or one that has nothing new to offer and hopes to cash in with a padded set of previously released material. But neither is the … Continue reading
Cowboy Jack Clement’s Guess Things Happen That Way
We’ve been getting a lot of this genre in lately. Cowboy Song. Essentially it’s a softer, quieter country music. More like folk music in a lot of ways, but still featuring enough twang to rate high on the Western scale. … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack’s Still Live After All These Years
Not sure how many American readers will recall the great British band Chicken Shack. I suppose their biggest, or at least best known contribution to the world is Christine McVie (nee Perfect) to Fleetwood Mac. But since 1967 they’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged blues music
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Giant Sand’s …Is All Over the Map
Tucson desert rat Howe (the “e” is silent) Gelb has been making his idiosyncratic music since about 1980, when he formed Giant Sand Worms with the German guitarist Rainer Ptacek. Through the 1990s, Giant Sand included Gelb on guitar, piano … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Vilddas’ Háliidan
The contemporary folk music emanating from Scandinavia in general, and Finland in particular, has branched out from home-grown traditions to incorporate a great variety of musical styles across the globe, from Western pop and rock to Balkan and Middle Eastern … Continue reading
Chris Stamey’s Travels in the South
Chris Stamey is an indie-rock institution. He helped define rootsy independent rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of The dBs. Since then, the Chapel Hill native has labored away under the radar as a solo act, … Continue reading
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Tagged indie rock, rock and roll
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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