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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
Eric Taylor’s Scuffletown
Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor has been influential on a whole crop of younger folks of the same ilk, including Nancy Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle. Lovett, for instance, included one of Taylor’s songs on his 1998 double-CD tribute to … Continue reading
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Rick Shea’s Sawbones
Rick Shea has spent some time the past few years on the road as a member of Dave Alvin’s backing band, the Guilty Men. A talented guitarist and in-demand sideman, Shea makes his solo recording debut with Sawbones. It’s a … Continue reading
Helen Bell’s Audierne
Audierne is a charming record of traditional and contemporary instrumental music with a Celtic flair. Helen Bell plays viola — an instrument you don’t hear every day, much less in Celtic music — as well as violin, recorder and whistles, … Continue reading
Various artists’ Traditional Irish Music in America anthology
In the 1970s, something new yet very old was happening in America. Traditional Irish music was being played and recorded. Just when it looked as though Irish music would fade out and disappear in the modern, mechanized world of the … Continue reading
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Frog Holler’s Idiots
Rural Pennsylvania is better known for its “Pennsylvania Dutch” communities than its country singers, but Frog Holler seems determined to change that. This alt-country outfit, who style themselves the eponymous Idiots of this CD, are the type of young rowdy … Continue reading
Paul Thorn’s Ain’t Love Strange
Paul Thorn is a professional boxer turned country singer. On Ain’t Love Strange, his sophomore effort, he has crafted a set that’s as strong as just about anything by his more experienced Texas singer-songwriter compatriots. He and a small but … Continue reading
Cándido Fabré y su Banda’s La Habana Quiere Guarachar Contigo and Jóvenes Clasicos del Son’s Fruta Bomba
It’s not just veterans and pensioners like the Buena Vista Social Club and Los Jubilados who are making excellent Cuban music these days, as these two recordings from Tumi Music attest. Cándido Fabré is widely recognized from Latin America to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuban music, world music
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Bag o’ Cats’ Out of the Bag
Out of the Bag is a mixed bag of loosely Celtic-based instrumental World music. This Scottish quintet blends a number of disparate musical elements into an effective musical melange. Elements in the mix include Indian strings and percussion, Scottish pipes, … Continue reading
Lalezar Ensemble’s Music of the Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Volume I Sultan Composers and Volume II Music of the Dancing Boys
The Lalezar Ensemble is part of a revival of classical Ottoman music under way in Turkey. The group — four instrumentalists and three vocalists — have created four CDs that give a sampling of some of the best and most … Continue reading
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Tagged traditional music, world music
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Richard Thompson’s Action Packed
Richard Thompson is the sort of musician who invites superlatives. He’s one of the best singer-songwriters and one of the best guitarists of the past 50 years. With a career that has spanned four decades, Thompson has amassed a discography … Continue reading