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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
Various artists’ Everybody’s Tuned to the Radio: Rural Music Traditions in West Georgia, 1947-1979
With a title that sounds like a master’s dissertation, a disc like this better deliver the goods right up front, and it does. The best part — well, second best, right after the music itself — is the story behind … Continue reading
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Dolorean’s Not Exotic
Dolorean makes a gently dark folk music that draws on Nick Drake and Elliott Smith in its slow tempos and sad, introspective lyrics. At the center of this Portland, Oregon, based combo is singer-songwriter Al James, who reportedly spent the … Continue reading
Audrey Auld’s Losing Faith
Australian Audrey Auld writes and sings Americana music in a variety of styles, from confessional folk to country rock. She’s also an entrepreneur and founder of her own record label. “Music with the dirt left on,” is how Auld describes … Continue reading
Eliza Gilkyson’s Land of Milk and Honey
Eliza Gilkyson is one of the most respected singer-songwriters to come out of Texas in the past 20 years, having taken her place in 2003 in the Austin Music Hall of Fame alongside greats such as Willie Nelson, Townes Van … Continue reading
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Dulcie Taylor’s Mirrors and Windows
Dulcie Taylor has a few surprises up her sleeve. Mirrors and Windows, her second release on Black Iris, starts like a fairly typical singer-songwriter album of contemporary folk music — albeit a very good one. “Blackberry Winter,” the opening track, … Continue reading
Jolie Holland’s Catalpa
Jolie Holland makes new music that sounds — some of it, anyway — very old. A true daughter of the American South, she was born and raised in Texas, and cut her musical teeth on the gypsy-like circuit of like-minded … Continue reading
The Lucky Tomblin Band’s The Lucky Tomblin Band
The Lucky Tomblin Band‘s self-titled debut is a swingin’ platter of honky-tonk straight out of Texas. This band has a pedigree guaranteed to get it a blue ribbon in any show; its members have about a zillion years of recording … Continue reading
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Wylie & The Wild West’s Hooves of the Horses
Wylie Gustafson is a real-life, actual cowboy. He has a ranch in eastern Washington State, and he’s a world-class trainer and rider of cutting horses. Not only that, but he’s one of only a handful of artists around today still … Continue reading
Jacob Young’s Dancing Outlaw and Dancing Outlaw 2, Jesco Goes to Hollywood
Up in Boone County, West Virginia There lives the outlaw Jesco White And the way he loves to dance Makes all the men want to fight … — “Jesco,” Trailer Bride’s High Seas (Bloodshot, 2001) (Editor’s note, Feb. 2021: These … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Mali to Memphis: An African-American Odyssey and Louisiana Gumbo, and Oliver Mtukudzi’s The Oliver Mtukudzi Collection: The Tuku Years
These three discs from world music purveyors Putumayo present a study in how the music of America and Africa have influenced each other. Mali to Memphis Well before the deluge of blues-roots discs that accompanied 2003’s “Year of the Blues,” … Continue reading
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