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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
Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley’s Mither o’ the Sea
I have been interested in the traditional music of the British Isles for more than 35 years and have grown older listening to the work of musicians who were already well known to the folk music loving minority when I … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk music, Nordic music
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Fernando’s Old Man Motel
Old Man Motel is one of the most enjoyable rock albums I’ve heard in a long time. In fact, it’s near the top of my Top 10 of 1999 discs. Fernando is a Portland, Oregon, band fronted by Fernando Viciconte, … Continue reading
Richard Thompson Band, Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon – Sept. 14, 1999
Richard Thompson has always rocked; sometimes more, sometimes less. Unfortunately, he got that pesky prefix “folk” appended to his title, because he was a founding member of the seminal English folk-rock group … uh, Pentangle? no; Steeleye Span? no; oh … Continue reading
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Tagged folk-rock, Richard Thompson, rock and roll
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Roy Harris’s Live at the Lion
We live in an era when most of the recordings that any of us buy are put out by multinational megabucks corporations, for which the recording business is only one of a number of activities and has to earn its … Continue reading
Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt, Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, Portland, Oregon – Sept. 6, 1999
Something old, new, borrowed and blue were among the ingredients as these two grand dames of American folk-rock launched their first-ever joint tour in front of some 4,000 fans in an outdoor amphitheater. Old: Songs going back more than 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Jimmy Young’s Pipeworks
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. There probably is no sound more associated with Celtic music than that of the pipes. They’re heard at almost every Celtic festival, on St. Patrick’s Day, and in movie soundtracks ranging from “Rob Roy” and … Continue reading
Steeleye Span & Maddy Prior’s A Rare Collection 1972-1996
Raven Records is a label set up by Australian rock historian Glenn A. Baker. Although he has been collecting and compiling recordings for over 25 years, it was in the late Eighties that he won the BBC competition “Rock Brain … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock
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Richard Thompson’s Mock Tudor
(This review was written by Gary Whitehouse and Dan Herman in September 1999.) Any new release by Richard Thompson is eagerly awaited by his minor legion of extremely loyal fans worldwide. But anticipation was especially high for Mock Tudor. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged British folk rock, English folk rock
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John Doe solo acoustic at Lenora’s Ghost
John Doe seems to be coming to terms with being an aging rock star. Not that, in his mid-forties, the frontman of X — the most important punk band to come out of Los Angeles — is anything like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Moebius’s August: New Music for Three Bagpipes
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. I may be wrong here, but it occurs to me that piping music written for six hands, i.e., three pipers, is not the most common music in the world. In fact, most … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagpipes, Celtic music
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