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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
Howe Gelb’s The Listener and The Band of Blacky Ranchette’s Still Lookin’ Good to Me
Howe Gelb is one of the most prolific of American independent recording artists. He’s based in Tucson, Arizona, although he now spends about half of his time in Denmark, where his wife is from. Recording under his own name, or … Continue reading
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Suzy Bogguss’ Swing!
Suzy Bogguss is a highly popular country star, and something of a Nashville maverick. Which means she got famous enough before Music City was totally taken over by the big labels and the suits that she can continue to make … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s Singing Bones
Brett and Rennie Sparks, a.k.a. The Handsome Family, have been releasing records for the better part of a decade now. Singing Bones, their sixth regular release (not counting the internet-only rarities disc Smothered and Covered in 2002), is their first … Continue reading
Robert Earl Keen’s Farm Fresh Onions
OK, I confess! I’ve occasionally judged a book by its cover. And I’ve sometimes judged a musician by his or her fans. Robert Earl Keen, f’r instance. Keen’s a good ol’ Texas boy best known for his frat-guy party anthem, … Continue reading
Various artists’ It’ll Come to You … The Songs of John Hiatt
If any American popular songwriter is due a tribute, it’s John Hiatt. He’s been writing and recording his pithy, blues-influenced songs for some three decades, and had songs covered by dozens of more popular artists, but has never had his … Continue reading
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Little Sue’s Crow
One of the mainstays in Portland’s thriving alt-country community, Susanna Weaver performs and records as Little Sue, with backing from a host of other local musicians. Crow, her second CD, is an endearing disc. The 10 songs on Crow cover … Continue reading
Andrew Bird’s Weather Systems
Andrew Bird first came to my attention in the late ’90s as a guest player on records by the swing revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers. Since then the Chicago native has put out four solo albums, three backed by his own … Continue reading
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Vic Chesnutt’s Silver Lake
Vic Chesnutt is a Southern singer-songwriter who’s more respected by other musicians than by the marketplace or the public. Partially paralyzed since a drunken-driving accident at the age of 18, he’s put out a series of albums with songs that … Continue reading
The Richard Thompson Band’s Ducknapped! and Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music
To counter widespread bootlegging of his music, Richard Thompson decided to from time to time issue “unofficial” live recordings. With the birth of his official website “Beesweb” and a label of the same name, the number of these releases has … Continue reading
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Darrell Scott’s Family Tree
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. Rarely does an album cover come as teeming with subtexts as that on Darrell Scott’s newest release Family Tree (his second after Aloha from Nashville released by Sugar Hill). A picture of his son in … Continue reading