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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
Category Archives: Music
Eliseo Parra’s Viva Quien Sabe Querer
Eliseo Parra is dedicated to preserving and bringing forward the various strains that make up Iberian music, and he does it admirably in this intriguing and compelling CD. Spain hasn’t yet made much of a splash on the World Music … Continue reading
Boris Grebenshikov’s Russian Songwriter: A Collection From Boris Grebenshikov
A long time ago in a mythical, long-forgotten land known as the Soviet Union, a young man named Boris decided to write and sing songs. A native of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Boris Grebenshikov became arguably the most renowned figure … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Waterson:Carthy’s A Dark Light
This review was contributed by Judith Gennett. Norma Waterson and her spouse Martin Carthy have extensive musical histories extending into the dim murky past of the English folk revival. One’s head could explode just thinking of it all: the a … Continue reading
KGB’s Contra-Intelligence and Volga Notions, and Bag o’ Tricks/Tricky Brits’ Bag o’ Tricks/Tricky Brits
These three CDs by three … well, four inter-related Seattle, Wash., bands present a lively sample of contemporary contradance music. KGB is a trio of Julie King, Claude Ginsburg and Dave Bartley, and takes its name from the initials of … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Cuban Music Story
Q. Does the world really need yet another “various artists” collection of Cuban music? A. If it’s as good as this one, yes. I didn’t expect to like this, one of dozens of similar CDs to hit the market since … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuban music, world music
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Bo Ramsey’s In the Weeds
Robert Franklin “Bo” Ramsey is one of those musicians better known among his peers than among the public. Springing from the same corn-fed Iowa fields as his sometime songwriting partner Greg Brown, he plays a gritty heartland style of blues, … Continue reading
Toshi Reagon’s Toshi
Toshi Reagon‘s second record for Razor & Tie (she’s been recording since 1990 on a variety of labels) is a mix of blues, roots, folk and rock. Reagon, whose parents were both members of the 1960s’ protest supergroup The Freedom … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s Twilight, and Smothered and Covered
“So long to my dog Snickers, who ate Christmas tinsel So long to Mr. Whiskers, who jumped out of a window And to the family of gerbils who chewed out of their cage and the little brown rabbit I ran … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Doc Watson and Frosty Morn’s Round the Table Again
Doc Watson is indeed “a legend,” as he is introduced at the beginning of this live disc. With its second live Watson release in as many years, Sugar Hill has bookended the extraordinary career of this blind guitarist and singer … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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Kelly Joe Phelps’s Sky Like a Broken Clock and Beggar’s Oil EP
Kelly Joe Phelps is a Washington State native who started his musical career as a jazz guitarist and bassist. Sky Like a Broken Clock is his fourth as an acoustic blues player (his third for Ryko), and his first with … Continue reading
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