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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
Various artists’ Swing West! Vols. 1, 2 and 3
Country music and Nashville are synonymous, right? Well, right as far as it goes. But since the late 1940s, California, particularly Bakersfield, has been the breeding ground for its own strain of country music that stands outside of the mainstream … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Jazz music, music
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Hiring Fair’s Breakfast Anyone?
There is a big difference between live music and recorded music. In live music, you are very much dependent on the atmosphere created during the performance. Good live music is created together with the audience, and you play on their … Continue reading
The Flatirons’ Prayer Bones
Sin, redemption, judgement, betrayal, vengeance, tired angels, grinning devils, whiskey bottles and empty beds are the primal stuff of American folk and country music. And they turn up in spades on the debut record from Portland, Oregon’s Flatirons. Mostly known … Continue reading
Various artists’ Exposed Roots: The best of alt.country
You remember K-Tel, don’t you? If you watched television in the U.S. in the 1970s and ’80s, you do. They’re the folks who brought you those “greatest hits” collections by Boxcar Willie and Slim Whitman, along with sets like the … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Sandy Bull’s Re-Inventions: Best of the Vanguard Years
I wasn’t familiar with Sandy Bull’s name when I got this CD, and as the very informative booklet accompanying the CD said, I am apparently in fairly good company. Sandy started recording for Vanguard Records in 1962, and spent 10 … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, world music
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Väsen’s Gront
Väsen’s roots delve deep – back two full decades, when then teenaged Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa – a type of Swedish keyed fiddle) and Mikael Marin (viola) first met and began to play together. The band gelled a full nine years … Continue reading
Various Artists’ Balkans without Borders
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. When the lights go out, when the food disappears, when death is ever-present, you still find music. – David Wilson, director Pavarotti Music Centre, Mostar In response to the extreme violence and poverty that has … Continue reading
Jennifer White’s Clarsach
In general, harp recordings can capture a good bit of the enchantment of the instrument, but rarely do they come close to the magic of hearing a live harp performance. Jennifer White’s Clarsach sounds more like sitting in someone’s living … Continue reading
Los Super Seven’s Los Super Seven
By Brendan It was music producer Dan Goodman who envisioned gathering together a wide variety of musicians to cut an album that would show the wide influence and universal appeal of Mexican traditional music to a broader audience. Practically a … Continue reading
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Tagged Latino music, rock and roll
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