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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
John Hiatt’s The Tiki Bar is Open
John Hiatt has done it again. The Tiki Bar is Open is a rocking followup worthy of last year’s Grammy-nominated, folky Crossing Muddy Waters. In 1987, Hiatt made what was at the time the record of his career, the soulful … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Beyond the Pale’s Routes
Beyond the Pale, formed in 1998 in Toronto, is a young quintet making lively klezmer-based music. The fact that they’ve played more than 200 gigs in their three years together has paid off in a top-notch debut recording. Routes is … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, folk music, Klezmer music, world music
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Maria Kalaniemi & Sven Ahlbäck’s Ilmajousi / Luftstråk
Two musical innovators, Finnish accordionist Maria Kalaniemi and Swedish fiddler Sven Ahlbäck, have pooled their considerable talents to produce a recording of subtle delights. The 36-year-old Kalaniemi, who has top billing here, has rapidly risen to the top ranks of … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, Nordic music, world music
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Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Eternal and Lowdown
Eternal and Lowdown is easily the match of any alternative country CD released in 2001. It’s packed with solid, passionate songwriting and intense singing and playing. Ray Wylie Hubbard, a 54-year-old Texan, has been writing and singing songs since the … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, blues music
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Five Furious Fish’s Hook, Line & Sphincter
Five Furious Fish are a five-piece English electric folk band, playing a unique and engaging blend of Cajun, zydeco, reggae and rhythm & blues. On this, their debut CD, they play mostly originals, penned by two band members, plus a … Continue reading
Riders of the Purple Sage’s 27 Hits Performed Live and Drifting Clouds
Buck Page has been leading various incarnations of the Riders of the Purple Sage off and on since 1936. These two recent releases feature two different lineups, with only Page and Mike Ley in common. The stronger of the two … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Various artists’ Rough Guide to Samba and Rough Guide to Merengue & Bachata
I have yet to encounter a Rough Guide collection that is less than excellent in terms of selection, production and presentation, and these two new CDs maintain the series’ tradition of quality music. Rough Guide to Samba Samba is subtitled … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Tim Eriksen’s Tim Eriksen
Spine, by Cordelia’s Dad, was one of my favorite discs of 2000, and it remains among my frequently played CDs. Tim Eriksen, the frontman of Cordelia’s Dad, presents a heartfelt solo debut with roots deep in American traditional music. The … Continue reading
Ardavan Kamkar’s Over the Wind
Ardavan Kamkar is a member of a large Iranian Kurdish musical family. In his early 30s, he has risen to prominence as a soloist on the santur, a Persian hammer dulcimer. Over the Wind, recorded in 1998 in Teheran, is … Continue reading
Rosie Flores’s Speed of Sound
Rosie Flores rose to prominence as the rockabilly queen of the roots-rock and alternative country scene in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, although she’s been playing in bands since the ’60s. The 50-year-old San Antonio native shows she can still … Continue reading