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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
M. Ward’s Transfiguration of Vincent
With Transfiguration of Vincent, M. Ward is batting .1000. He has three solid albums released in a little over three years. The young Portland, Oregon-based musician just keeps turning out charming, idiosyncratic albums that mark him as an American original. … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk-rock, rock and roll
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Steve Forbert’s Any Old Time and various artists’ The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers continues to be one of the most influential of American roots musicians, which is nothing short of remarkable for a scrawny, untutored consumptive whose recording career barely spanned five years, seven decades ago. But contemporary musicians keep recording … Continue reading
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Various artists’ The Rough Guide to the Music of Mexico
Mexico is a huge country. It has an immensely varied geography and a multitude of facets to its culture, born of the interraction between numerous native and European societies. Small wonder, then, that its music is so varied. The Rough … Continue reading
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Sweet Honey in the Rock’s The Women Gather
Sweet Honey in the Rock celebrates its 30th anniversary with this disc, a dozen-and-a-half songs in their trademark style. Sweet Honey is a women’s vocal ensemble that draws from the full range of African-American music — rhythmic chants, field chants … Continue reading
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Little Sue’s The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is the third full-length CD by Portland, Oregon based Susannah Weaver, who performs as Little Sue. In the same way that 1999’s Crow was a cut above her 1997 debut Chimneys and Fishes, so The Long Goodbye … Continue reading
Frank Zappa’s Zappa Picks by Jon Fishman of Phish
Frank Zappa was an iconoclastic American musician. He surfaced in the ’60s but was decidedly non-hippie and anti-drug, and his music drew more on jazz, classical and cabaret than the folk and acid-rock of that decade. If I had to … Continue reading
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Kyle MacNeil, Liz Carroll, Tove de Fries, North River Centre for the Performing Arts, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia – Oct. 13, 2002
I wish I could show you video and play you a recording of this magical night, dubbed Fiddle Heaven in the Celtic Colours International Festival program. It would make anyone a fan of fiddle music, to hear this auditory ambrosia; … Continue reading
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Kelly Willis’s Easy
Kelly Willis‘s Easy is easily one of the most beautiful country records made in the past year. Willis has been making records since the early 1990s, after she was “discovered” in an Austin, Texas, nightclub by Nanci Griffith. After spending … Continue reading
Bert Williams’ The Middle years, 1910-1918 and His Final Releases, 1919-1922
I know about Fanny Brice. Her portrayal of Brice in “Funny Girl” was the breakthrough that made Barbra Striesand a star. I know about W. C. Fields, and can recite many of his best-known lines in an approximation of his … Continue reading
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Vassar Clements’ Full Circle
Vassar Clements was the first fiddle player whose playing I fell in love with. I’ve always just naturally gravitated to the guitar, but Vassar’s playing on the legendary Will the Circle Be Unbroken album made me sit up and pay … Continue reading