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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Puddings and More Puddings, Really
- 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
Category Archives: Music
Ass Ponys’ Some Stupid With a Flare Gun
Some Stupid With a Flare Gun is arresting, rootsy rock from a band that’s been around for more than a decade and may be just hitting its stride. The Ass Ponys have been making folk-rock, country-rock and just plain rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant’s Stratosphere boogie: The flaming guitars of … and Vol. 2: Swingin’ on the Strings
Western swing is a hybrid of country and jazz, and if Wills was its king, then Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant were the crown princes. The two moved to southern California to join its burgeoning music scene in the years … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Jazz music, music
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Guy Clark’s Cold Dog Soup
There’s something about Guy Clark’s songs that make them seem like old friends, even when you hear them for the first time. His collection Cold Dog Soup is no exception. This Texas singer-songwriter is a true treasure. I can picture, … Continue reading
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Gideon Freudmann’s Hologram Crackers
Hologram Crackers is an album of solo cello music. But I guarantee you it’s like no other cello music you’ve ever heard, unless you’re one of the growing cadre of Gideon Freudmann fans. To say that Freudmann plays the cello … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, Jazz music, music
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Continental Drifters’ Vermilion
We’re all drifters singers and sisters brothers and lovers and mothers and confidantes. We were born alone we’re alone when we’re gone so while we’re here, we might as well just sing along. With these words in the chorus of … Continue reading
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Jon Dee Graham’s Summerland
Between the ghost in the yard and the angel in the tree/the roses in their bed get more sleep than me. That line, from “Half the Time,” the second track on Jon Dee Graham’s Summerland, just won’t turn loose of … Continue reading
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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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