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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
The Lucky Tomblin Band’s The Lucky Tomblin Band
The Lucky Tomblin Band‘s self-titled debut is a swingin’ platter of honky-tonk straight out of Texas. This band has a pedigree guaranteed to get it a blue ribbon in any show; its members have about a zillion years of recording … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Wylie & The Wild West’s Hooves of the Horses
Wylie Gustafson is a real-life, actual cowboy. He has a ranch in eastern Washington State, and he’s a world-class trainer and rider of cutting horses. Not only that, but he’s one of only a handful of artists around today still … Continue reading
Jacob Young’s Dancing Outlaw and Dancing Outlaw 2, Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Up in Boone County, West Virginia There lives the outlaw Jesco White And the way he loves to dance Makes all the men want to fight … — “Jesco,” Trailer Bride’s High Seas (Bloodshot, 2001) (Editor’s note, Feb. 2021: These … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, documentary
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Eric Bibb, Rory Block, and Maria Muldaur’s Sisters & Brothers
Behold, how good and how pleasant for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity.” — Psalm 133 The blues has a spiritual side which is every bit as important to the make-up of the blues as is the physical … Continue reading
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Tagged blues music
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Tim Harrison’s Wheatfield with Crows
Lenora Rose contributed this review. Tim Harrison is a classic guitar playing singer-songwriter, with several obvious merits; he’s a tuneful singer with a pleasant voice, and a decidedly skilled guitar stylist. There’s Spanish and classical guitar technique here if I’m … Continue reading
Carol J. Oja’s Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
The 1920s was a formative decade for “serious” American music, and the nexus of musical activity was in New York. Music professor Carol Oja provides an in-depth exploration of the music of the decade and its continuing impact on American … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary music, modernism
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Southern Culture on the Skids’ Mojo Box and Laika & The Cosmonauts’ Local Warming
Surf music. Whether that phrase makes you think of the smooth, polished, multi-guitar sound of The Ventures, the slashing rumble of Link Wray, the power-picking of Dick Dale or the danceable pop of ’60s beach blanket movies, you still probably … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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Tanglefoot’s Captured Alive
The group known as Tanglefoot began as a three-piece in the early 1980s. They played Canadian folk songs with … shall we say … vigour! The group grew and changed, but their enthusiasm continued, and they began to write their … Continue reading
Various artists’ Feel Like Going Home, The Soul of a Man, Warming By the Devil’s Fire, Piano Blues; Son House’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues and Keb’ Mo’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues
And so the juggernaut that is Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues continues. First it appeared as a PBS television event; then a book; the television films were released on DVD; and now Green Man Review looks at a small part … Continue reading
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Tagged blues music
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The Tiger Lillies’ The Brothel to the Cemetery and The Sea
Murder, death, disease and criminal behavior have long been topics of song in the Western World. The Tiger Lillies, a London-based trio, push that sort of subject matter just about as far as anyone you’ll ever hear. The Lillies play … Continue reading