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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
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- 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
Bob Fox’s Borrowed Moments
Bob Fox has made two of my favourite albums from the last half decade, the brilliant Dreams Never Leave You, backed by members of Fairport Convention, and as a member of the Hush, a jazzy outfit performing songs from Northumbria … Continue reading
Martin Simpson’s The Bramble Briar
This album will go down in history. You won’t believe how good it is! If ever there was an album that makes me, and probably loads of others, want to go out and burn my guitar, this is it. I … Continue reading
Fiddlestix: An interview with Michael Hunter, ca. 2002
Editor’s note: Michael Hunter is a Green Man staffer and the Editor of Fiddlestix, the Australian fanzine for the band Fairport Convention. He was interviewed for Green Man by Debbie Skolnik. GMR: Michael, how did Fiddlestix get started? Michael Hunter: … Continue reading
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Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol’s Another Fine Mess: Live In New York ’84
After nearly twenty years, Swarbrick and Nicol have begun touring the UK folk clubs as an acoustic duo again. The first time around, it was as one of the spinoffs resulting from Fairport Convention’s early-80s hiatus, with a couple of … Continue reading
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Dave Swarbrick’s Lift The Lid And Listen, Dave Swarbrick & Friends’ The Ceilidh Album, and Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol’s In The Club
These three very worthy albums fill in a noticeable gap in the issue of Dave Swarbrick’s work on CD. Recent years have seen the reissue of albums from most aspects of his long and hugely influential career in English folk, … Continue reading
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Nils Økland’s Glødetrådar
For some reason I didn’t get around to reviewing this lovely album when it came out, and have had some sort of mental block against it ever since. There’s some confusion about its release date – one streaming service says … Continue reading
Kasey Chambers interview with Michael Hunter, August 2001
It’s fair to say Australian alt-country artist Kasey Chambers has come a long way in recent times. After many years performing with her family in the Dead Ringer Band, she released her debut solo album The Captain in 1999. It … Continue reading
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Shave the Monkey’s Good Luck Mr Gorsky
This is the fourth CD by Shave the Monkey, four years after its predecessor Mad Arthur, which I reviewed along with their first two recordings here. The lineup is the same, but this time they have left the traditional tunes … Continue reading
Shave the Monkey’s Dragonfly, Mad Arthur, and The Unseelie Court
Shave the Monkey is a six-member English group. They started out in 1988 as a five-piece, but added a drummer after their first CD. Since that time they’ve kept up a surprisingly stable membership consisting of Bryan Causton on various … Continue reading
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Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton: Early recordings, 1987-1998
Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Gael Linn Barnes, Allison Hampton, Wendy Morrison, and Myron Bretholz’s The Celtic Consort Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Dark Island Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s The Spiral Castle Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton’s … Continue reading
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