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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
Tag Archives: Americana music
Riders In The Sky’s Public Cowboy #1: A Centennial Salute to the Music of Gene Autry
Gene Autry was one of my childhood idols. We reviewed his Essential CD set, his name came up in our review of Douglas Green’s book on Singing Cowboys, and he was very much the key behind the music reviewed in … Continue reading
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Richmond Fontaine’s Thirteen Cities
The Portland, Oregon, band Richmond Fontaine makes a distinctive brand of alt-country noir music. With Thirteen Cities (their eighth studio release in addition to two live albums) they’ve teamed up with a bunch of Tucson, Arizona, regulars to produce a … Continue reading
Charlie Louvin’s Charlie Louvin
The Louvin Brothers were among the most influential of country singing acts in the 1950s and ’60s — particularly on their peers and succeeding generations of musicians. Charlie and Ira’s pioneering work in the close harmony style of country and … Continue reading
Tom Waits’ Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Tom Waits is one of the great poets and showmen of our time. If you don’t believe me, spend some time with his utterly splendid three-disc set Orphans. For about 30 years now, Waits has been honing his craft. Starting … Continue reading
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Dickey Betts’ Bougainvillea’s Call: The Very Best Of, 1973-1988
The great guitar-playing member of the Allman Brothers Band will always be remembered as Duane Allman. His real claim to fame is that he played on Derek & the Dominos’ Layla, and that he died in a motorcycle accident in … Continue reading
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The Sadies’ In Concert Vol. One
The Sadies’ In Concert Vol. One is my feel-good disc of the summer. But then I’m one of the lucky souls who got a promo copy about the time the summer began. The rest of you who’ve had to wait … Continue reading
Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete and Local Gentry
James Dickey wrote the classic novel of survival, Deliverance. You’ll recall the importance folk music (and especially a guitar and banjo duet) played in the film. Dickey was an amateur guitar picker himself, and in his followup book Sorties (a … Continue reading
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Darrell Scott’s Theatre of the Unheard and Live in NC
Christopher Conder wrote this review. Theatre of the Unheard is a particularly significant release in Kentucky-born Darrell Scott‘s oeuvre. First recorded in 1991, it was, in Scott’s own words, the first time he found his ‘ “voice” as a writer’. … Continue reading
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Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie’s Hungry Ghosts
Every Wednesday night at the Edgewater Pub and Bistro in Comox, B.C., Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie take the stage to play some old blues and regale the audience with tales about the songs and singers they pay tribute to. … Continue reading
Dick Smith’s Woozy
The band behind one of my favorite CDs of 2002, Dick Smith, is back. Woozy, their third release, finds the Illinois-based trio becoming a quartet, and still making delirious acoustic music about life on the fringes. The addition to the … Continue reading