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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
Frigg’s Frixx
The Finnish folk septet Frigg is one of the world’s best known Nordic groups, having toured much of the world including Europe numerous times and North America at least seven. In early 2020 they marked their 20th anniversary with their … Continue reading
Little Pink’s 12 Birds and Mary Prankster’s Tell Your Friends
Little Pink and Mary Prankster hail from the neighboring cities of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., respectively. Both fall loosely into the alternative country camp, though at different ends of the spectrum, and both closed out 2002 with strong, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Blazin’ Fiddles Live
When our Editor and Publisher (also known as “the Chief”) first broached the idea of my reviewing a Blazin’ Fiddles release, I was hesitant. “A whole orchestra?” said I. “Of fiddles?” (Well, that’s what he said it was.) Somehow I … Continue reading
Franco Ambrosetti Band’s Lost Within You
To mark his 79th birthday in December 2020, the Swiss jazz icon Franco Ambrosetti has made an album of ballads with the all-star ensemble that was with him on his 2019 release Long Waves. The composer and trumpeter — who … Continue reading
Justin Moses’ Fall Like Rain
Highly respected bluegrass picker Justin Moses steps into the limelight with his first full-length project under his own name, and Fall Like Rain is an auspicious debut. Moses is a prodigious talent in many, many ways: he can play seemingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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Taco Tapes’ Trad is Rad
We all have our own ways of coping with the isolation, privation and anxiety of this extraordinary year-plus of pandemic and political upheaval. One thing I’m seeing a lot of is a return to the comfort of our musical roots. … Continue reading
Various artists’ Folk Songs of the Uzbeks & Tatars of China
The Naxos World label is releasing a series of recordings documenting China’s rich and diverse folk music. They’ve scheduled 15 albums in all, with eight released so far, each covering a different region of modern China’s vast territory. Volume 9 … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, traditional music, world music
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Daniel Norgren’s Daniel Norgren Live
Daniel Norgren’s Wooh Dang was one of my favorite albums of 2019, and his live show that I saw in Portland in October of that year was startling and uplifting – and also one of the last live shows I … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk-rock, indie rock
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Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar’s Raga Mishra Bhairavi and Raga Gangeyabushan, and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee’s Raga Desh
The Swedish label Amigo re-released on CD these three ragas from the 1960s and 1970s. All are interesting recordings for fans of raga. The CDs come with very little in the way of liner notes or information. The Banerjee disc … Continue reading
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Tagged classical Indian raga
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