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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
A Latvian music UPE Records omnibus review
Various artists’ A Touch of Latvian Folk Music Skandinieki’s Skandinieki Valdis Muktupavels’s Valdis Muktupavels Marija Golubova’s Stasti Un Dziesmas Latvia is a small country located on the east side of the Baltic Sea, with Estonia to the north, Lithuania to … Continue reading
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Tagged latvian folk music, world music
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Divanhana’s Zavrzlama
Divanhana is a Bosnian sevdah band founded in 2009 by a group of students from the Sarajevo Music Academy. Fronted by powerful and supple singer Šejla Grgić, they play folk and “urban traditional” music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well … Continue reading
Ritchie Valens’s The Complete Ritchie Valens, limited edition DVD
Tell me all you know about Ritchie Valens! … umh … “La Bamba” right? … Airplane crash … and that’s about it! Well, there is a story to tell about Ritchie Valens and a new DVD from Whirlwind Media tells … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll
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Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Good and Green Again
New music from Jake Xerxes Fussell is always cause for celebration, and this one is very special. Good and Green Again is his fourth release and in some ways represents a bit of a departure. On his two previous albums … Continue reading
Vigüela’s A la manera artesana
The Spanish folk quintet Vigüela call their new album A la manera artesana or “In the artisan way.” In the album’s liner notes by the great folk music champion Simon Broughton, he explains it this way: “The title of their … Continue reading
Imarhan’s Aboogi
One of my favorite songs of 2016 was “World Goes Away” from the Tucson Arizona-based group Xixa’s album Bloodline. As I said in my review of that album: XIXA’s dual frontmen, Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan, seem to have internalized … Continue reading
Helge Lien Trio’s Revisited
Norwegian pianist Helge Lien’s jazz trio has undergone major changes in the past couple of years, losing bassist Frode Berg after 2017’s superb Guzuguzu and drummer Per Oddvar Johansen (after 2019’s 10). So Lien found himself improvising even more than … Continue reading
Gary’s favorite roots, rock, and Americana music of 2021
There was plenty of good Americana and roots music in 2021, but I didn’t hear a lot of great music in those categories. Which is fine, and understandable. We’re all struggling to stay afloat. These selections mostly reflect music that … Continue reading
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The Beatles’ Rubber Soul, U.S. version
Exactly 56 years ago I was perplexedly listening to this new album by my favorite group. I was 10 years old and had been a fan of The Beatles for what had only been two years but seemed like several … Continue reading
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Doran’s Doran
Doran is the sound of four young musicians engaged in the serious business of playing with sound. These four, who hail variously from the Pacific Northwest, New York City, and rural Virginia, have made one of the most spine-tingling and … Continue reading