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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
Ronu Majumdar’s Classical Traditions: The Indian Bansuri
Pandit Ronu Majumdar is a globally renowned, Grammy nominated, multiple award winning player of the bansuri flute of Hindustani classical music. He’s a pioneer in the instrument, following a tradition that included his father, and influential to a younger generation … Continue reading
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The Flatlanders’ Treasure of Love
The Flatlanders have always been “more a legend than a band,” which is why that was the title of their first proper album in 1990, put together by Rounder from tracks they’d previously recorded in a career that stretched back … Continue reading
Various artists’ Folk Music Of China, Vol. 14: Songs Of The Tibetan Plateau – Monba and Lhoba Peoples
This is the 14th of a planned 20 volumes of folk songs from across the immensely varied regions of China, and the second covering the music of the Tibetan Plateau. The previous release, Vol. 14, covered songs from the Haixi … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Folk Music of China, Vol. 13: Songs of the Tibetan Plateau
This is the 13th of Naxos World’s fine series exploring the vast diversity of traditional and folk songs of the many regions of China. It’s a bit different from those I’ve reviewed so far, in that its selections include some … Continue reading
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Caamaño & Ameixeira’s Aire!
This is an utterly charming album by a young Galician duo. Aire! is the first album by these two musicians – Sabela Caamaño, who plays chromatic accordion, and Antía Ameixeiras, who plays violin and sings. They formed this duo in … Continue reading
Bill and the Belles’ Happy Again
Bill and the Belles, based in Johnson City, Tennessee, are steeped in American roots music, and it shows in their delightful 2021 album Happy Again. It’s one of those albums full of sad songs that only sound happy, as betrayed … Continue reading
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog’s Hope
Marc Ribot is the guitarist you go to if you want someone whose choices will never be formulaic or expected. In addition to working on his own in various trios, quartets and other configurations as well as solo, he has … Continue reading
Sam Filiatreau’s Sam Filiatreau
Classic ’70s country meets Appalachian-based folk meets modern indie folk in Sam Filiatreau’s self-titled debut. Modern indie folk like that made by the Athens, Ohio-based CAAMP, for instance, which is no coincidence, because two members of that trio form Sam’s … Continue reading
Almog Sharvit’s Get Up or Cry
Musicians are not always the most articulate persons when it comes to describing their own music. It looks to me like bassist Almog Sharvit is the exception. Because when he refers to the music on his debut leader date Get … Continue reading
Turner Cody’s Friends in High Places
It’s a good day when I discover a musician who plays the kind of music I love but who I’ve never heard of before. Turner Cody is just the latest. He’s been making music for like 20 years now, and … Continue reading