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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
Tish Hinojosa’s Sign of Truth
Austin, Texas-based Tish Hinojosa (een-o-HO-sa) sings and plays a straightforward style of singer-songwriter folk music, colored lightly with strains of her Hispanic heritage. Sign of Truth features Hinojosa performing 12 songs, all of which she wrote or co-wrote, backed by … Continue reading
Raffaele Quirino’s Ani DiFranco: Righteous Babe
No’am Newman wrote this review. If you’re looking for a bare bones biography about the Buffalo, New York, singer songwriter Ani DiFranco, then her website is a good place to start. But if you’re looking for something deeper, then Ani … Continue reading
Tarbox Ramblers’ Tarbox Ramblers
A lot of bands make what is called “roots rock,” but Boston’s Tarbox Ramblers are so close to their roots that if you gave them a good shake, bits of dirt and loam and I don’t know what-all would probably … Continue reading
Bill Lamey’s Full Circle
Bill Lamey is one of the best-known and most influential Cape Breton Island fiddlers in the world — to other Scottish-style fiddlers. Rounder has brought Lamey’s music, previously known mostly to other fiddlers and those lucky enough to have heard … Continue reading
Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band’s Ready or Not, Wayne Toups and Zydecajun’s Little Wooden Box and Li’l Band o’ Gold’s Li’l Band o’ Gold
These three rocking, accordion-driven releases from Shanachie draw on all three of the popular musical styles born in Southwestern Louisiana: Zydeco, Cajun and swamp pop. Together, they give a lively snapshot of the state of this artistically fecund region’s music. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cajun music, rock and roll, zydeco music
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Lunasa, The Majestic Theater, Corvallis, Oregon, May 10, 2000
Lunasa was introduced to the 230 fans at the Majestic Theater as “one of the hottest Celtic bands” performing in the world today. But on this unseasonably cool spring evening, frontman and flutist Kevin Crawford said “we’re the coldest band … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore at Brunish Hall, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, Ore., May 7, 2000
Texas troubadore Jimmie Dale Gilmore and an ace backing band turned in a top-notch acoustic performance on this Sunday evening, a day after Gilmore marked his 55th birthday in Seattle. It was the second night of a spring-summer tour that … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Takashi Hirayasu and Bob Brozman’s Jin Jin/Firefly
Takashi Hirayasu is a Japanese folk musician, and Bob Brozman an American guitarist extraordinaire. Together, the two have made a magical record. Jin Jin/Firefly combines traditional Okinawan folksongs with a wide variety of American and World Music idioms including blues, … Continue reading
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s One Endless Night
Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a dapper, long-haired, cowboy-booted Texan, equal parts Hank Williams, Roy Orbison and Zen poet. One Endless Night is a sterling collection of well-crafted songs that amply reflect the man’s artistry. Gilmore wrote the title track and … Continue reading
Various artists’ Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks: Volume One, Along the Eastern Crescent
Fiddle music was once endemic to nearly every region of North America, including Mexico and certainly Canada. Most regions developed their own peculiar styles — the best known include southern Louisiana (Cajun), Texas, Appalachia, New England, and Cape Breton Island … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, traditional music
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