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- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Music
Jessica Harper’s Hey, Picasso
Craig Clarke wrote this review. Before writing this review, I knew Jessica Harper only as an actress, specifically her work in two Woody Allen films, the horror classic Suspiria, and her role on the TV series It’s Garry Shandling’s Show … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's music, Singer-Songwriter
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James Galway’s The Essential James Galway
James Galway has had a long successful career, and he probably has a larger audience than any of the groups and singers we usually write about in Green Man Review. He is even mentioned in the two most important Swedish … Continue reading
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Tagged classical music, instrumental pop music
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Coila’s Full On, Drinkers Drouth (with Davy Steele)’s A Tribute, and Margaret Stewart and Allan MacDonald’s Colla Mo Rùn
Judith Gennett wrote this’n. “The object of my affection is the white shanked heifer / She doesn’t need a fetter around her shanks…” Some people come home, pour a martini, and throw on some jazz. Others, however, put on Scottish … Continue reading
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Tagged Scottish music
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Emily Remler’s Cookin’ at the Queens, and Bill Evans’s Bill Evans In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert
Talk about forgotten greats … I’ve been listening to jazz all my life, and really digging into it for at least a dozen years now, and had never come across Emily Remler, the great guitarist who died at the age … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music
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Wishamalii’s Al-Bahr, and Aylin’s Soulgarden’s Bu Bir Demdir
The Finland based multi-cultural trio Wishamalii makes powerful and beguiling music that seamlessly blends genres. World renowned Finnish piannist Kari Ikonen joins with Palestinian-Jordanian singer, composer and oud virtuoso Nemat Battah, and Ethopian percussionist Abdissa “Mamba” Assefa on this soulful … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Various artists’ Folk and World Music Galore Vol. 3
The German label Folk Galore, part of the CPL-Music group, has put together this year’s compilation of top tracks from the group’s 2024 folk music releases. Folk and World Music Galore Vol. 3 is, as usual, a good way to … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, folk-rock, Nordic music, world music
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Sandeep Das’s Indian Delta
Born in Rajasthan, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt studied traditional Indian music with the greatest teachers. He even spent time with Pt. Ravi Shankar. He even invented his own instrument. Combining the traditional Indian veena with a Hawaiian guitar, he created … Continue reading
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Tagged Indian classical music, world music
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Various artists’ The Music of Nubenegra
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. In 1994 Manuel Dominguez, a longtime devotee to traditional Spanish music, began the Nubenegra label out of Madrid, Spain. Originally dedicating his label solely to Spanish and Cuban music, he soon expanded its coverage to … Continue reading
Odetta’s Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
Odetta is one of the key figures in the American and worldwide folk music revival of the 1950s, and along with Pete Seeger and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott one of the few still around and performing today. This glorious re-release of … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, blues music, folk music
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John Prine’s Fair & Square
“That’s golden!” John Prine exclaims, after the last strains of a guitar chord fade away on the last (bonus) track on his latest album, Fair & Square. Those two words sum up the whole album. Prine is an absolute treasure … Continue reading