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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
Mason Brown and Chipper Thompson’s Am I Born to Die
An album of old-time American music performed by a couple of New Mexicans, on an artsy independent label based in upstate New York may seem an unlikely thing. But Am I Born to Die is a beautiful and moving piece … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Cajun & Creole Music 1934/1937, vols. I and II
Between 1934 and 1937 father and son folklorists John and Alan Lomax recorded Cajun and Creole musicians in Louisiana, as part of a national project for the Library of Congress. Musicians from the region have been mining that treasure trove … Continue reading
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Kurt Wolff’s Country Music: The Rough Guide
The turn of the Millennium seems as good a time as any to release this sort of book, and a better time than any in the past two decades. Country music has been in a transition period since the early … Continue reading
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Caitlin Cary’s Waltzie EP
Caitlin Cary plays fiddle and sings harmony in the alt country band Whiskeytown, which is currently on hiatus. With frontman Ryan Adams recording a critically acclaimed solo effort, Cary has stepped into her own little corner of the spotlight with … Continue reading
The Holy Modal Rounders’ Last Round
Slowly but surely, the Holy Modal Rounders back catalog is being reissued. The latest to be dragged squinting and blinking into the light of day is 1978’s Last Round. Even more than the original Rounders’ first two acoustic discs reissued … Continue reading
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The Holy Modal Rounders’ Too Much Fun!
The Holy Modal Rounders’ new disc scares my dog. Now, ol’ Agnes Of Dog puts up with a lot, from Richard Thompson to Social Distortion, bagpipes to ragas to blasting guitar, with nary a whimper. Well, she does whine a … Continue reading
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John McCutcheon’s Storied Ground
John McCutcheon is one of America’s great traveling troubadours. For a quarter of a century, he has criss-crossed the country and circled the globe, delivering his signature brand of thoughtful, heartfelt folk music. In that time, he has averaged about … Continue reading
Various artists’ No Electric Guitars
This is a mostly successful sampler of works by a loose-knit community of musicians in the Philadelphia area. Despite the title, it ranges from acoustic singer-songwriter fare to flat-out rockers, with a generous helping of alterna-folk and funky roots rock … Continue reading
Red Star Belgrade’s Telescope
Bill Curry, the singer-songwriter behind North Carolina’s Red Star Belgrade, is pushing country-rock into some unexpected places. Telescope, the husband-wife duo’s third full-length CD in six years, lyrically travels some dark territory. Sonically, the group draws on influences as diverse … Continue reading
Frog Holler’s Adams Hotel Road
Of all the groups that have gone on record since Uncle Tupelo got the alternative country movement rolling in the early 1990s, this septet from Pennsylvania may come the closest to picking up where that group left off when it … Continue reading