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- 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
- 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)
Category Archives: Music
Samla Mammas Manna’s Kaka
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. This is a brilliant quartet out of Sweden. They are full of hi jinx and hilarity in between tracks – and sometimes during. Not only that, but they are very talented musicians and would … Continue reading
Tapani Varis’s Jews Harp
Liz Milner wrote this review. It’s hard to develop warm and fuzzy feelings for an instrument that produces the sounds of prolonged belching. Nonetheless, I was prepared to try. Listening to a master musician has often opened my ears to … Continue reading
José Medeles’s Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems
It’s great to know that there’s still so much great music coming out of Portland, Oregon. This one is as eclectic and as Portland as they come, matching up three excellent and quite different Portland guitarists with a Portland drummer … Continue reading
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Tagged Acoustic guitar, Americana music, blues music, folk music
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Joe Rainey’s Niineta
Joe Rainey is a Pow Wow singer. Though he is a Red Lake Ojibwe, he did not grow up on the Red Lake Reservation but far to the south in Minneapolis, where he still lives and makes music. He grew … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indian music, indigenous music, world music
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Frog Holler’s Haywire
My biggest problem in writing this review of Frog Holler’s excellent new album is how to classify their music. “Alt-country” has become so ubiquitous a tag as to be virtually meaningless these days. And it’s too bad one even has … Continue reading
The Youngers’ Heritage
I was attracted to The Youngers by the presence of frontman Todd Bartolo, who plays guitar in one of my favorite bands, the Pennsylvania-based alt-country outfit Frog Holler. Though also based in rural Pennsylvania, The Youngers is quite a different … Continue reading
Teddy Thompson’s Separate Ways
No sophomore slump for Teddy Thompson. On the contrary, his second outing Separate Ways is altogether a more muscular and cohesive affair than his 2001 self-titled debut. He’s aided and abetted by dad Richard and mom Linda (on the hidden … Continue reading
Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
“In 1997 I recorded ‘We Shall Overcome’ for Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger. Growing up a rock’n’roll kid I didn’t know a lot about Pete’s music or the depth of his influence. So I … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition
Thirty years!?! Wow! It’s been thirty years since I heard Bruce Springsteen for the first time? I had heard so much about other “new Dylans” that I ignored his first two albums. When I played Born To Run for the … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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David Hughes’s This Other Eden
I must admit it is very hard to be impartial about this one. First of all David mentioned me (and even published a photo of me and my son) in his book The Fairport Tour. Secondly, he once bought me … Continue reading