-
Meta
Editorial Staff
Cat Eldridge
Gary WhitehouseSearch
-
Recent Posts
- 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
Tag Archives: Americana music
The Decemberists’ Live At Bull Moose
Very early in their tour in support of the 2011 release The King Is Dead The Decemberists recorded this seven-track EP during a live in-store appearance at Bull Moose music store in Scarborough, Maine, a suburb of what frontman Colin … Continue reading
Nick Jaina’s The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone
Nick Jaina is showing signs of being one of the most prolific of Portland, Oregon’s many prolific independent musicians. Already in 2011 he has put out a free download album Sleeping On The Covers that features songs by other artists … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, indie folk
Comments Off on Nick Jaina’s The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone
Hot Club Of Cowtown’s What Makes Bob Holler
The Hot Club Of Cowtown is just what its name implies – a small ensemble playing a mix of hot jazz in the manner of Django Reinhardt’s and Stephane Grappelli’s Hot Club of France and Western swing in the manner … Continue reading
Maggie Björklund’s Coming Home
Maggie Björklund is a Danish pedal steel guitar player who recently released her debut album in the United States. You won’t find any “Steel Guitar Rag” or Hawaiian music on Coming Home, if that’s what your idea of pedal steel … Continue reading
Sean Rowe’s Magic
“Surprise” is an appropriate title for the first song on Upstate New York-based singer-songwriter Sean Rowe’s debut Magic. You’ll probably be surprised by him, especially if your introduction to him was in a live setting, as it was for me … Continue reading
Various artists’s No One Got Hurt: Bloodshot Records’ 15th Anniversary @ The Hideout, Chicago
During the summer and early fall of 2009, the folks at Bloodshot Records, Chicago’s “insurgent country” label, put on a series of concerts featuring a rotating cast of a bunch of the musicians currently or formerly on their roster. In … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
Comments Off on Various artists’s No One Got Hurt: Bloodshot Records’ 15th Anniversary @ The Hideout, Chicago
Warren Zevon’s Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Warren Zevon’s songs, like the man himself, alternated between sincere and heavily ironic, sometimes within the same song. Heck, within the same verse. My response to this 2007 New West release does the same thing. Ironic summary: Four years after … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
Comments Off on Warren Zevon’s Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Asleep at the Wheel and Leon Rausch’s It’s A Good Day
Leon Rausch was lead singer with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in that band’s later years, starting in 1958. He was again enlisted as lead vocalist when Wills’s widow reformed the band as Bob Wills’ Original Texas Playboys in … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music
Comments Off on Asleep at the Wheel and Leon Rausch’s It’s A Good Day
My Cousin, The Emperor’s The Subway EPs
As I write this, the Brooklyn-based band My Cousin, The Emperor is playing at the South By Southwest music industry showcase in Austin, Texas. Although a lot of people I know are there, and some may even be in the … Continue reading
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys’ Grand Isle
Grand Isle, the 11th album by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, continues to push southern Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole music in new directions while remaining solidly rooted in tradition. This gritty album was born on the heels of yet … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, Cajun music
Comments Off on Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys’ Grand Isle