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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: Americana music
Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence’s Havin’ A Talk
Whether fronting her own band on three acclaimed solo albums or part of a collaborative group like Sad Daddy, chronicling humorous human foibles or lovelorn heartache, or even celebrating the winter holidays in down home country style, Melissa Carper is … Continue reading
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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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