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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
Ruben Machtelinckx + Arve Henriksen’s A Short Story
Count this disc as yet another that is a balm in these extraordinary times. Now, Belgian guitarist and composer Ruben Machtelinckx couldn’t possibly have known that we’d be facing war in Europe as February faded into March of 2022, when … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary music, Jazz music
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Benedicte Maurseth’s Hárr
It’s doubly true that Benedicte Maurseth is a Hardanger fiddler. She plays the Hardanger fiddle, and she is from the western Norwegian district of Hardanger. Her latest album Hárr is an homage to the wildlife and mountain people of her … Continue reading
An Odgers & Simmonds omnibus review
Odgers & Simmonds + Kent’s Live: Offenburg Spiltakeller 5th May 2000 Odgers & Simmonds’ Folk at The Fortress Liberty Cage’s Sleep of the Just On the bulletin board in my office at Green Man is this note from Swill, of … Continue reading
The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s Demos & Rarities, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and Devil on the Wind EP
If there was any justice in this universe, The Men They Couldn’t Hang would be as well known as The Pogues; in some senses they are their English counterpart. Indeed, Demos & Rarities, Vol. 1 shows that this group, even … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s Night of a Thousand Candles, Silvertown, and The Domino Club
Chuck Lipsig wrote this review. In some alternate branch of history, there is a very successful Irish punk-folk band that was founded and fronted by Shane MacGowan, called The Men They Couldn’t Hang. However, Shanne Hasler, fellow member of a … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock, folk-rock, punk music, rock and roll
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Andy Irvine & Paul Brady’s Andy Irvine / Paul Brady
From the first strains of the opening track “Plains Of Kildare” it’s clear that this is a special record. Dónal Lunny’s bouzouki, Andy Irvine’s mandolin and Paul Brady’s guitar lay down a rhythmic bed over which Irvine’s sturdy tenor vocals … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music
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Brian McNeill & Iain MacKintosh’s Live and Kicking
First of all, I must thank the McNeills for sending this release as it took not one, but two mailings to get this to Green Man as the first copy got lost somewhere in the post. This means that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music
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Slagr’s Linde
I last covered the music of the Norwegian trio Slagr on the occasion of their 2015 Ozella release Short Stories. Here’s what I said in the opening paragraph of that review: Slagr was founded in 2003 by hardanger fiddler Anne … Continue reading
Shane Parish’s Liverpool
What do you think of when you hear the term “sea shanties?” A bunch of guys singing rhythmic songs unaccompanied or with one concertina or fiddle? Or maybe even Rogue’s Gallery, the late great Hal Willner’s superb four disc collection … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, folk-rock, Sea Songs & Shanties
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Annbjørg Lien’s Janus
Janus was the Roman god of beginnings, transitions, and endings, and that’s just what was on Annbjørg Lien’s heart when she prepared this album. As she says in the liner notes of this package of lovely words, pictures and music, … Continue reading