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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
Shane MacGowan’s Popes’ Across the Broad Atlantic
Yet ‘nother CD featuring the vocal talents of Shane MacGowan, a man whose appearance would scare even the most hardened member of the Unseelie Court, showed up here for review this past week. (The photo on the Across The Broad … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, rock and roll
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Phil Cunningham, Kevin Burke, Susan McKeown, Aidan Brennan, Seamus Egan, and Solas’ Memorial Concert for Johnny Cunningham
Phil Cunningham sat alone on the large stage, eyes closed, as he wrung a slow, sad air from his custom Borsini accordion in memory of his brother Johnny. The Faerieworlds Festival crowd of several hundred, which moments before had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, Johnny Cunningham
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Steve Reel’s Celtic Knights and The Unfortunate Rakes’ Rakes Alive!
This review was contributed by Mike Stiles. These two CDs benchmark the glorious growth of the guitar in Celtic music. I encourage those readers who haven’t yet checked out the Celtic scene to do so by bouncing off some familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Cordelia’s Dad’s What it is
Cordelia’s Dad is an indie rock band whose members have an ongoing love affair with really old-time American music. Throughout the 1990s they produced a series of albums that swung from punk to acoustic old-time and unaccompanied shape-note songs. On … Continue reading
Peggy Seeger’s Heading For Home
Peggy Seeger is a member of one of the pre-eminent families of music in America. The Seeger clan and their collaborators (and sometimes antagonists) the Lomaxes, together are largely responsible for the survival and revival of American folk music in … Continue reading
The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s The Cherry Red Jukebox
“Well Cracklin’ Rosie said Let’s Get it On (won’t you Bang a Gong) / with a wall of sound and Da Doo Ron Ron / Gasoline Alley, Roll Away the Stone / Yeah, we’re singing Elvis all the way home.” … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity’s A Kind of Love In: 1967-1971
Pianist Brian Auger heard the sound of the Hammond B-3 (as played by Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff) in 1964, and gave up a promising career in jazz for R&B and the sound of the organ. Guitarist John McLaughlin was … Continue reading
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Tagged rhythm 'n' blues, rock and roll
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Calexico at the Aladdin Theater
It was a night of sublime “desert noir” for the fans of Calexico at Portland’s Aladdin Theater. The seven members of this road-tested Tucson, Arizona-based combo seemed relaxed but energized as they performed nearly 20 songs old and new in a … Continue reading
Eric Bibb’s Friends
When I was a young man, before I reached my advanced years, nobody was singing the blues except for Englishmen. The old blues singers were in their dotage, and the younger black musicians avoided the blues like the plague. Then … Continue reading
The Animals’ Gratefully Dead 1964-1968
Eric Burdon has been in the news recently. As of early July 2004 he has a new CD and a new book, neither of which we will discuss today. He is on tour, somewhere, playing a variation on the blues-based … Continue reading
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Tagged blues music, rock and roll
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