-
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
Kristin Mooney’s Kristin Mooney
Kristin Mooney has made a contemporary folk album that defies easy categorization. The Minneapolis native has spent time in Nashville, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt her any. For this collection of a dozen songs, all of which she … Continue reading
The Kennedys’ Stand
Pete and Maura Kennedy are back with another healthy dose of their signature brand of upbeat, spiritual folk-rock. Stand is their sixth release since 1994, and their first for Koch. The Kennedys’ music is similar in tone to that of … Continue reading
Calexico at the Aladdin Theater
It was a night of sublime “desert noir” for the fans of Calexico at Portland’s Aladdin Theater. The seven members of this road-tested Tucson, Arizona-based combo seemed relaxed but energized as they performed nearly 20 songs old and new in a … Continue reading
Stian Carstensen’s Backwards Into the Backwoods
Stian Carstensen is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, the cracked genius behind the group Farmer’s Market, which combines Scandinavian folk, Balkan dance music and wild post-bop jazz into a heady and infectious brew. On Backwards Into the Backwoods, his latest project freed … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, Balkan music, contemporary music, Jazz music, Nordic music
Comments Off on Stian Carstensen’s Backwards Into the Backwoods
Rick Shea and Patty Booker’s Our Shangri-LA
Rick Shea and Patty Booker have both been fixtures on the southern California country and roots rock scenes since the 1980s. With Our Shangri-LA they’ve teamed up to produce a new album of classic California country. It’s a hard-core blend … Continue reading
Various artists’ No Depression: What It Sounds Like (Vol. 1)
Compilation and tribute CDs are a dime a dozen these days, but if they’re done right, they can make good listening. Here’s a good example of a compilation in the country music category. No Depression magazine is the bi-monthly bible … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music
Comments Off on Various artists’ No Depression: What It Sounds Like (Vol. 1)
Various artists’ Just Because I’m a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton
Tribute albums can fall into a couple of different traps: the artists either too closely ape the originals or they push them so far outside the envelope that they’re unrecognizable. Ideally, the performer paying tribute strikes a balance between the … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music
Comments Off on Various artists’ Just Because I’m a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton
Rolling Stones’ Forty Licks
Rolling Stones! What the heck are the Rolling Stones doing in Green Man Review!?!? Having tapped virtually every other place in the world for source material, have they finally created the album of Elizabethan folk music that “Lady Jane” hinted … Continue reading
Hoyt Axton’s Flashes of Fire: Hoyt’s Very Best 1962-1990
Hoyt Axton was that lovable bear of a father in The Black Stallion, and Gremlins too, as I recall. It seemed so cool to have Hoyt as a dad. He knew what kids wanted … even if it got them … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, folk-rock, rock and roll
Comments Off on Hoyt Axton’s Flashes of Fire: Hoyt’s Very Best 1962-1990
Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano
Tucson’s musical savant Howe Gelb has released an album of mostly instrumental keyboard music, Ogle Some Piano. It’s a curious disc, even by Gelb’s eccentric standards — 19 tracks of piano meanderings in a variety of styles: jazz, rock, pop, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Americana music, Jazz music, rock and roll
Comments Off on Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano