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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
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- 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’
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
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- 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
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
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- 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
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
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- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
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Tag Archives: Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention Goes Dutch
Koen Hottentot wrote this review. Theatre De Kom, Nieuwegein, Holland, December 12, 1999 Yesterday must have been one of the most bizarre Fairport gigs in recent years. Half the audience demanded their money back. The other half went home very, … Continue reading
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Fairport Convention’s The Cropredy Box
Pamela Murray Winters contributed this review. A few days ago the Folk Tales staff was discussing whether The Cropredy Box warranted a review. Someone opined that the three-CD set featuring Fairport Convention at its 30th anniversary concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, … Continue reading
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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2007
John O’Regan wrote this review. Fairport Convention’s 40-year career has seen them evolve from a UK equivalent of American West Coast folk-rockers to the inventors of British Folk Rock. To celebrate their 40th anniversary from Thursday August 9 to Saturday … Continue reading
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Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival 1999
Deb Skolnik prepared this for Folk Tales, Green Man Review’s predecessor. If you have been following the English folk music scene for any length of time, particularly in the ’60s, you will not have been able to escape hearing something … Continue reading
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A Consumer´s Guide to Fairport Convention
Preliminary Note: This guide deals only with the official studio and live albums released by Fairport Convention through 1999. No samplers, collections or unofficial live albums are mentioned. The albums are graded as follows: (****) = A classic. Should be … Continue reading
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Clinton Heylin’s No More Sad Refrains: The Life and Times of Sandy Denny
Chris Woods penned this review. In some ways it’s apposite that a book written about an artist as emotionally charged and mercurial as Sandy Denny should itself have had a difficult and rocky genesis. Some people, myself included, were expecting … Continue reading
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Ashley Hutchings’ Burning Bright
The title comes from the William Blake poem, “Tyger, Tyger” and the reason is…that Tyger is Ashley Hutchings‘ nickname. Having said that…let me next alert all and sundry that Free Reed is the greatest box-set compilation maker in the world, nay, universe! … Continue reading
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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention! August 2005
John O’Regan penned this epic review. ‘What We Did On Our Holidays’ was the title of Fairport Convention’s second album for Island records in 1969. To paraphrase said title a little, what I did this year on my holidays was go … Continue reading
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Fairport Convention’s Live At The BBC
With the release of the original Heyday cassette in 1976, Fairport Convention was probably one of the earliest groups to take advantage of the “BBC Sessions” format. Since then, it has become reasonably commonplace for bands to release such artefacts, sometimes to … Continue reading
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Nigel Schofeld’s Fairport Unconventional
What I consider the best book ever written on this English not quite just folk band was never actually released as a book. Confused? Well let me sort out this matter. Back in 2002, the thirty-five anniversary of the band, … Continue reading