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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
Various artists’ Swamp Pop
Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues is a companion CD to a book of the same name by Shane K. Bernard. With or without the book, it’s an excellent primer in the Louisiana-based style of rock ‘n’ roll … Continue reading
Tish Hinojosa’s Sign of Truth
Austin, Texas-based Tish Hinojosa (een-o-HO-sa) sings and plays a straightforward style of singer-songwriter folk music, colored lightly with strains of her Hispanic heritage. Sign of Truth features Hinojosa performing 12 songs, all of which she wrote or co-wrote, backed by … Continue reading
Tarbox Ramblers’ Tarbox Ramblers
A lot of bands make what is called “roots rock,” but Boston’s Tarbox Ramblers are so close to their roots that if you gave them a good shake, bits of dirt and loam and I don’t know what-all would probably … Continue reading
Jimmie Dale Gilmore at Brunish Hall, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, Ore., May 7, 2000
Texas troubadore Jimmie Dale Gilmore and an ace backing band turned in a top-notch acoustic performance on this Sunday evening, a day after Gilmore marked his 55th birthday in Seattle. It was the second night of a spring-summer tour that … Continue reading
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Jean A. Boyd’s The Jazz of the Southwest
For about 20 years, from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, Western swing was one of the most popular types of music in America. At its peak in the late 1940s, the biggest of them all, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, was … Continue reading
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s One Endless Night
Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a dapper, long-haired, cowboy-booted Texan, equal parts Hank Williams, Roy Orbison and Zen poet. One Endless Night is a sterling collection of well-crafted songs that amply reflect the man’s artistry. Gilmore wrote the title track and … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s In the Air
Chicago’s The Handsome Family makes morbid Americana music for the depressed, crazy and suicidal. It is at times wickedly funny, and if you’re in the right frame of mind, very entertaining. In the Air, the Handsomes’ fourth full-length CD, carries … Continue reading
Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt’s Little Labels—Big Sound
Some of the most important and influential American music has been put out by small independent labels. And it’s no accident that it’s also some of the best and most authentic American music, from Delta and Chicago blues to bebop … Continue reading
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Ass Ponys’ Some Stupid With a Flare Gun
Some Stupid With a Flare Gun is arresting, rootsy rock from a band that’s been around for more than a decade and may be just hitting its stride. The Ass Ponys have been making folk-rock, country-rock and just plain rock … Continue reading
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Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant’s Stratosphere boogie: The flaming guitars of … and Vol. 2: Swingin’ on the Strings
Western swing is a hybrid of country and jazz, and if Wills was its king, then Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant were the crown princes. The two moved to southern California to join its burgeoning music scene in the years … Continue reading
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