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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
Darrell Scott’s Family Tree
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. Rarely does an album cover come as teeming with subtexts as that on Darrell Scott’s newest release Family Tree (his second after Aloha from Nashville released by Sugar Hill). A picture of his son in … Continue reading
eastmountainsouth’s eastmountainsouth
The young folk-pop duo eastmountainsouth debuts as one of the first releases on the new DreamWorks label, signed by legendary musician Robbie Robertson and produced by legendary knobsman Mitchell Froom. Whether they’ll live up to the obviously high expectations placed … Continue reading
The Brooklyn Cowboys’ Dodging Bullets
The Brooklyn Cowboys aren’t really what you’d call a supergroup. The Cowboys instead are mostly a bunch of established session players and side players who’ve gotten together to pool their considerable talents at making country-rock music. Among them, the Cowboys … Continue reading
The Gibson Brothers’ Bona Fide
The Gibson Brothers, Eric and Leigh, hail from upstate New York, and they play a brand of bluegrass that’s influenced by New England folk music as much as by Appalachian string bands. They have top-notch picking (Leigh on guitar, Eric … Continue reading
Ozzie Kotani’s To Honor A Queen: the Music of Lili’uokalani, and Led Kaapana & Bob Brozman’s In the Saddle
Legend has it that Spanish and Mexican cowboys brought acoustic guitars to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1800s. The native Hawaiians acquired some of these guitars and developed uniquely inventive techniques for playing them. Influenced by their own traditional chants … Continue reading
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Tagged Hawaiian music, Hawaiian slack guitar
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Chuck Brodsky’s The Baseball Ballads
Jealous lovers with guns. Racism. Illicit drugs. The pain and confusion of growing up. And … spies? All of these, except perhaps the last, are typical fodder for American singer-songwriters. But this isn’t a typical record of folk songs. Troubador … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Aaron Copland’s A Copland Celebration: Vol. 1, Famous Orchestral and Chamber Works, Vol. 2, Chamber Music and Rarities and Vol. 3, Vocal and Choral Works
To mark what would have been Aaron Copland’s 100th birthday in 2000, Sony Classical disgorged a cornucopia of Copland works. This three volume, six-CD set gives a good overview of the career of this quintessential American composer. It includes the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron copland, American classical music
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Paso Fino’s Should’ve Bought a Pony
This group’s name Paso Fino and the CD’s title, Should’ve Bought a Pony, combined with the artwork, which features photos and cave-drawings of horses, and some of the song titles — “Fiery Ride,” “Home On The Range,” “Belly Up,” “Pray … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk-rock
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Hank Dogs’ Half Smile
In the unlikely event that anyone makes a movie version of Australian author Tim Winton’s critically acclaimed Dirt Music, I propose Hank Dogs to perform the soundtrack. Never mind that the Dogs hail from South London, and the book is … Continue reading
Various artists’ Rockin’ Memphis: 1960’s – 1970’s Vol. 1
For me rock ‘n’ roll has to be original, wild, and raw. So when this album Rockin’ Memphis, subtitled 1960’s – 1970’s Vol. 1, came up for review I jumped at it. However, it did not turn out to be … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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