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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: blues music
Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack’s Still Live After All These Years
Not sure how many American readers will recall the great British band Chicken Shack. I suppose their biggest, or at least best known contribution to the world is Christine McVie (nee Perfect) to Fleetwood Mac. But since 1967 they’ve been … Continue reading
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Muddy Waters’ King Bee
Big Earl Sellar contributed this review. At the end of his long career and life, Muddy Waters found a kindred spirit in Johnny Winter, the Great White Hope of blues during the 1970s. Although their collaborations lasted for only four … Continue reading
Muddy Waters’ Hard Again and I’m Ready
In the late ’70s Muddy Waters was just coming out of a slump. Chess Records had given up on him, after trying everything to sell the older bluesmen. The Woodstock Album in 1976 was his best album in years (and … Continue reading
Eric Bibb’s Friends
When I was a young man, before I reached my advanced years, nobody was singing the blues except for Englishmen. The old blues singers were in their dotage, and the younger black musicians avoided the blues like the plague. Then … Continue reading
The Animals’ Gratefully Dead 1964-1968
Eric Burdon has been in the news recently. As of early July 2004 he has a new CD and a new book, neither of which we will discuss today. He is on tour, somewhere, playing a variation on the blues-based … Continue reading
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Eric Bibb, Rory Block, and Maria Muldaur’s Sisters & Brothers
Behold, how good and how pleasant for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity.” — Psalm 133 The blues has a spiritual side which is every bit as important to the make-up of the blues as is the physical … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Feel Like Going Home, The Soul of a Man, Warming By the Devil’s Fire, Piano Blues; Son House’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues and Keb’ Mo’s Martin Scorses Presents the Blues
And so the juggernaut that is Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues continues. First it appeared as a PBS television event; then a book; the television films were released on DVD; and now Green Man Review looks at a small part … Continue reading
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Carl Wolfe’s W.C. Handy’s Beale Street – Where the Blues Began
The year 2003 was named “Year of the Blues” in the U.S. because it was in 1903 that an African-American musician named William Christopher Handy first heard the music that later came to be known as the blues. In a … Continue reading
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John Mayall’s The Turning Point
I was 18 years old in 1969, when this record was first released. I was just beginning a lifelong interest in the blues. A friend played Muddy Waters’ The Real Folk Blues album for me, and I was hooked. I … Continue reading
Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Eternal and Lowdown
Eternal and Lowdown is easily the match of any alternative country CD released in 2001. It’s packed with solid, passionate songwriting and intense singing and playing. Ray Wylie Hubbard, a 54-year-old Texan, has been writing and singing songs since the … Continue reading
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