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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
Nels Andrews’ Sunday Shoes
The state of New Mexico is in the U.S. desert southwest, but it also straddles the Continental Divide. It has an entirely different landscape (and lifestyle) than you find in Texas to the east or Arizona to the west; it’s … Continue reading
The Avett Brothers’ Mignonette
The Avett Brothers join acts like Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show and the Legendary Shack Shakers to bring a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to Southern stringband music. The Avetts draw on the Piedmont blues, bluegrass and country of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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John King’s Royal Hawaiian Music, and Langley Ukulele Ensemble’s The Pacific Ukulele Connection & Strings Attached
Aah, Hawaiian music. It’s one of my guilty pleasures. In fact, I don’t feel that guilty about it at all. At Green Man Review we’ve looked at quite a bit of Hawaiian music in the past. Steel guitar, slack key … Continue reading
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Tagged Hawaiian music
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Zabe i Babe’s Drumovi
Zabe i Babe (pronounced something like ZHA-bay ee BAH-bay) is a bi-national folk-pop ensemble. The Bosnian-American group is a side project for members of the American folk-punk group Cordelia’s Dad, whose frontman, Tim Eriksen, sings and plays on this disc, … Continue reading
Dave Zimmer’s 4 Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader
Synergy. It’s a word that could have been invented with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in mind. It can be loosely defined as “the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,” and that definition fits CSNY to a … Continue reading
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Tagged music, rock and roll
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The Silos’ When the Telephone Rings and Jonathan Rundman’s Public Library
The Silos have been making roots rock since before it was even called that. It was 1985 when Walter Salas-Humara formed the Silos shortly after moving to New York from Florida. Their debut album, 1987’s Cuba, influenced many bands in … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Andean Fusion’s Andean Sounds for the World Vol. VII
It doesn’t even take a full listen to realize that Andean Fusion is having a great deal of fun on Andean Sounds for the World Vol. VII. The South American themed band is famous for its daily performances at the … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Muddy Waters’ King Bee
Big Earl Sellar contributed this review. At the end of his long career and life, Muddy Waters found a kindred spirit in Johnny Winter, the Great White Hope of blues during the 1970s. Although their collaborations lasted for only four … Continue reading
Calexico’s Convict Pool
The prolific desert-rock combo Calexico, after touring for a year behind their latest CD Feast of Wire, offered this EP as a sampler of what’s new in their live show. It features three cover songs that showcase some of the … Continue reading
Naim Amor’s Soundtracks Volume II
French musician Naim Amor is a denizen of Tucson, Arizona’s vibrant music scene. This is his second volume of Soundtracks music, the first he’s released on Howe Gelb’s OwOm label. It’s a delightful and quirky instrumental recording that blends jazz, … Continue reading