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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
Little Sue’s Crow
One of the mainstays in Portland’s thriving alt-country community, Susanna Weaver performs and records as Little Sue, with backing from a host of other local musicians. Crow, her second CD, is an endearing disc. The 10 songs on Crow cover … Continue reading
Debashish Bhattacharya and Bob Brozman’s Mahima
Calcutta native Debashish Bhattacharya and American Bob Brozman, both slide guitar virtuosi in their own traditons, have joined forces to create a masterpiece. Mahima is a joyous marriage of two major world music forms into something new and beautiful. The … Continue reading
Andrew Bird’s Weather Systems
Andrew Bird first came to my attention in the late ’90s as a guest player on records by the swing revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers. Since then the Chicago native has put out four solo albums, three backed by his own … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk-rock, music
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Howard Shore and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s The Lord of the Rings soundtracks
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Original scores composed and conducted by Howard Shore, The New Zealand Symphony … Continue reading
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The Baksheesh Boys’ The Baksheesh Boys
Judith Gennett wrote this review. At my college, the typical folkdancer was a nerdy professor’s daughter wearing a homemade polyester peasant blouse who danced with a buck-toothed smile to crackly Monitor LPs. Hence, I long ago missed the boat on … Continue reading
Dromedary’s Live From the Make Believe
Dromedary is an acoustic duo from Athens, Georgia, that mixes music from all over the world to create its own unique blend. Rob McMaken plays dulcimer, mandolin and guitar, and Andrew Reissiger plays charango (the Andean mandolin-like instrument) and guitar. … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, world music
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Vic Chesnutt’s Silver Lake
Vic Chesnutt is a Southern singer-songwriter who’s more respected by other musicians than by the marketplace or the public. Partially paralyzed since a drunken-driving accident at the age of 18, he’s put out a series of albums with songs that … Continue reading
The Richard Thompson Band’s Ducknapped! and Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music
To counter widespread bootlegging of his music, Richard Thompson decided to from time to time issue “unofficial” live recordings. With the birth of his official website “Beesweb” and a label of the same name, the number of these releases has … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, English folk rock, music, Richard Thompson
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Wicked Tinkers at the Portland Scottish Highland Games
Hot sun, cold beer, bagpipes, drums, didgeridoos, and four wildly funny, talented, sexy men in kilts … OK, maybe that’s not your idea of Heaven, but I’ve seen the Wicked Tinkers so I know better. The Tinkers are: award-winning piper … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Tori Amos’s Tales of a Librarian
Daniel James Wood wrote this review. Tales Of A Librarian is the CliffsNotes version of Tori Amos’s decade-long career — a career that, in addition to being broadly represented on the album, is also depicted bravely and unflinchingly, warts and … Continue reading
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