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- 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
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- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies
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- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
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- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
- What’s New for the 17th of August: Lots of Cropredy reports and reviews, and some new jazz and Americana;
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Tag Archives: Americana music
Alex Sturbaum’s Windjammer
Last time I caught up with Alex Sturbaum they had just released their excellent 2022 album Slash on which Alex played guitar to accompany a bunch of players of the fiddle, banjo, and nyckelharpa, most of them from the Pacific … Continue reading
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Los Super Seven’s Los Super Seven
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. It was music producer Dan Goodman who envisioned gathering together a wide variety of musicians to cut an album that would show the wide influence and universal appeal of Mexican traditional music … Continue reading
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Zoe Muth’s World of Strangers
It’s been three years since I saw Seattle’s Zoe Muth and her band the Lost High Rollers at a little festival on the northern Puget Sound. I liked her sound and thought she had a lot of potential. In the … Continue reading
Last Train Home’s Last Good Kiss
Last Train Home has taken several major steps forward with its eighth release Last Good Kiss. Not least among the positive changes are a relocation from Washington, D.C., to Nashville, and some lineup adjustments. And for the first time, all … Continue reading
Hook & Anchor’s Hook & Anchor
The song “Concerning Spectral Pinching” off of the debut self-titled album from Portland’s Hook & Anchor became one of my favorite songs of the summer. It neatly shows off the band’s chops at both country and rock, and showcases Kati … Continue reading
Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz’s Circle and Square
Eric Brace and I go back a ways — I think to about 2001 when I reviewed an Americana compilation that included a track by his Washington, D.C. band Last Train Home. I helped bring him and his longtime musical … Continue reading
Melissa Carper’s A Very Carper Christmas
Melissa Carper’s on a roll. This Americana/queer country standout has made three critically acclaimed solo albums (Ramblin’ Soul, Daddy’s Country Gold and Borned In Ya), plus a couple with the band Sad Daddy, one as the anchor of the Wonder … Continue reading
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Willie Nelson’s You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker, Kris Kristofferson’s This Old Road, and Bruce Robison’s Eleven Stories
Here are three albums by three country gentlemen: One old-timer singing classic country, another old-timer singing a clutch of his own new and timely tunes, and one relatively young pup who writes and sings in classic country mode. Willie Nelson … Continue reading
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Various artists’ It’s All Her Fault: A Tribute To Cindy Walker
Cindy Walker is one of the most under appreciated American country music songwriters among the listening public, but she’s a legend among her fellow musicians of several generations. When Americana singer songwriter Grey DeLisle — who counts Walker as among … Continue reading
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Trond Kallevåg’s Minnesota
Drawing from the same well of history, culture and human experience that informed his previous Hubro release, 2023’s Amerikabåten, Norwegian guitarist and composer Trond Kallevåg delves even deeper into the Norwegian American immigrant experience with Minnesota. I’ve been a big … Continue reading