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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: American folk music
Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton’s The Traditional Years: American Folk Tales and Songs
Peter Massey penned this review. It is a re-mastered album from about 1956. Jean Ritchie and Paul Clayton will need no introduction to folk music fans in America, because Jean Ritchie has been at the forefront of the American revivalist … Continue reading
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Anna & Elizabeth’s Sun to Sun
Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle took the folk music world by storm with their 2014 self-titled album. It made my Top 10 for the year and was similarly honored by media from American Songwriter to No Depression to NPR to … Continue reading
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Eric Brace & Karl Straub’s Hangtown Dancehall
Nashville’s Eric Brace has teamed up with fellow singer-songwriter Karl Straub to write a “folk opera” based on the story behind “Sweet Betsy From Pike,” one of the most durable folk songs to come out of the California Gold Rush. … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Divided & United – The Songs of the Civil War
It’s hard to overstate just what an extraordinary musical collection Divided & United, The Songs Of The Civil War is. The United States has been marking the 150th anniversary of its Civil War for the past three years. And in … Continue reading
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Hobart Smith’s Blue Ridge Legacy
Dock Boggs got all the attention, but there were many other extraordinary musicians playing in the hills. Hobart Smith passed away in 1965. The world was just discovering the Beatles, there was no room for a mountain man on the … Continue reading
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Texas Gladden’s Ballad Legacy
This addition to Rounder’s “Alan Lomax Collection” Portraits series is a short course on Appalachian ballads, courtesy of Lomax and this Virginia singer named Texas Gladden. Most of these recordings were made by Lomax at Gladden’s home in the 1940s, … Continue reading
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My favorite recordings of 2015
It’s a tradition for reviewers to draw up a Top 10 at the end of a calendar year. It’s also a tradition in an online music community that I’ve belonged to for about as long as I’ve been writing for … Continue reading →