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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Music
Damani Baker and Alex Vlack’s Still Bill
Bill Withers. I haven’t heard that name in a while, although I have regularly heard the songs — “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Just the Two of Us.” They still are played on AM radio. Probably … Continue reading
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Tagged bill withers, R&B music
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Emilio Solla & La Inestable de Brooklyn’s Handmade
If you’re hungry for some Latin jazz, you won’t find any better than the tango inflected big band sound of Handmade from the Grammy winning Emilio Solla & La Inestable de Brooklyn. Solla is a pianist and composer born in … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music, latin jazz music, world music
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Fenya Rai!’s 10 anys de fenya!
The Catalán folk rockers Fenya Rai! bring the spirit of Pogues, Waterboys, Gogol Bordello and Dropkick Murphys to the music of the Barcelona region, with perhaps a bit more humor and self-deprecation than you’ll typically find in those groups. But … Continue reading
Garrett Boys’ It Runs Deep
I was surprised, perhaps even shocked, to learn that It Runs Deep is the Garrett Boys’ debut album. This collection of deeply rooted and deeply personal songs is one of the best old time Americana records I’ve heard in some … Continue reading
Gangar’s Dreng
My favorite head-banging Norwegian metal prog folk rock band is back! Gangar’s second full-length Dreng continues in their established vein of playing knock-em-dead versions of Scandinavian folk songs and dance tunes on Hardanger fiddle plus rock instruments. The Oslo based … Continue reading
The Montvales’ Path of Totality
Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson came up together busking in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now based in Cincinnati (a straight shot 250 miles north on I-75) they make country flavored folk music as The Montvales, the twang of Tennessee still deeply imprinted … Continue reading
Triple Blind’s Cold Walk
After recording their first album from within the claustrophic confines of pandemic enforced digital collaboration, the American jazz quarter Triple Blind’s second effort is all about reconnecting. They recorded together live in the well known Dreamland Recording Studios in an … Continue reading
Mark Turner’s Patternmaster
A tight yet flexible boundary between improvisation and control is one of the central features of this amazing, sophisticated, and engaging album from Mark Turner’s quartet. Every one of Turner’s six compositions on Patternmaster walks that line between tightly composed chamber … Continue reading
Henriette Eilertsen Trio’s Moder
Some of my favorite jazz music is made by jazz flutists. Or flautists. I’m pretty sure the first jazz record I bought with my own money was Hubert Laws’s In The Beginning, and pretty soon after that I procured Milt … Continue reading
David Hughes’s Fifty Yards Of David Hughes, and The Fairport Tour (book+CD)
Chris Woods wrote this for Folk Tales. 50 yards is the latest studio album from British singer songwriter David Hughes, helped out here by Jacqui McShee, Gerry Conway, Matt and Dave Pegg. It’s great for once that I can use … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music
Tagged English folk rock, folk-rock
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