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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- 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)
Tag Archives: Americana music
Sir Douglas Quintet’s 1+1+1=4 and The Return of Doug Saldaña
Sir Douglas Quintet was but the first of many vehicles through which Texan Doug Sahm brought his sprawling musical vision to the world. The band had two charting singles, the Texas-garage-rock-meets-British-Invasion pastiche “She’s About a Mover” and the psychedelic-folk “Mendocino.” … Continue reading
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Calexico’s Feast of Wire
In Feast of Wire the Tucson, Arizona-based Calexico has made the most overtly political statement in its brief but prolific history. Their fourth full-length CD offers a cohesive vision of the collision of cultures in the desert borderland between the … Continue reading
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M. Ward’s Transfiguration of Vincent
With Transfiguration of Vincent, M. Ward is batting .1000. He has three solid albums released in a little over three years. The young Portland, Oregon-based musician just keeps turning out charming, idiosyncratic albums that mark him as an American original. … Continue reading
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Steve Forbert’s Any Old Time and various artists’ The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers continues to be one of the most influential of American roots musicians, which is nothing short of remarkable for a scrawny, untutored consumptive whose recording career barely spanned five years, seven decades ago. But contemporary musicians keep recording … Continue reading
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Sweet Honey in the Rock’s The Women Gather
Sweet Honey in the Rock celebrates its 30th anniversary with this disc, a dozen-and-a-half songs in their trademark style. Sweet Honey is a women’s vocal ensemble that draws from the full range of African-American music — rhythmic chants, field chants … Continue reading
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Little Sue’s The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is the third full-length CD by Portland, Oregon based Susannah Weaver, who performs as Little Sue. In the same way that 1999’s Crow was a cut above her 1997 debut Chimneys and Fishes, so The Long Goodbye … Continue reading
Kelly Willis’s Easy
Kelly Willis‘s Easy is easily one of the most beautiful country records made in the past year. Willis has been making records since the early 1990s, after she was “discovered” in an Austin, Texas, nightclub by Nanci Griffith. After spending … Continue reading
Bert Williams’ The Middle years, 1910-1918 and His Final Releases, 1919-1922
I know about Fanny Brice. Her portrayal of Brice in “Funny Girl” was the breakthrough that made Barbra Striesand a star. I know about W. C. Fields, and can recite many of his best-known lines in an approximation of his … Continue reading
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An omnibus review of midwinter holiday music
Ensemble Galilei’s A Winter’s Night: Christmas in the Great Hall; St. Agnes Fountain’s Acoustic Carols for Christmas, and Comfort & Joy; Various artists’ Oh Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays And how do you approach your midwinter holiday? It … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
It’s always nice to see a deserving person being recognized for a lifetime of achievement while still alive. And in American popular music, few living artists are as deserving of accolades as John R. “Johnny” Cash. Cash has written and … Continue reading
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