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- What’s New for the 9th of November:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
- What’s New for the 12th of October
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
- What’s New for the 28th of September: Appalachia in books, music and more
- A Kinrown Estate story: Autumn is Upon Us
- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
- What’s New for the 17th of August: Lots of Cropredy reports and reviews, and some new jazz and Americana;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Dragon
- What’s New for the 3rd of August: A mix of Heinlein reviews; new jazz out of Vermont and a grab bag of archival reviews; Italian American food writing, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Recursive Loops
- What’s New for the 20th of July: Lots of Elizabeth Bear including The Folded Sky; tomatoes; a Hobbit film; new jazz and archival reviews; Charles Vess ballads and sagas; and an offbeat Ellen Kushner adaptation
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Commedia dell’Arte. Possibly.
- What’s New for the 6th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mama Kin
- What’s New for the 22nd of June: books about baseball, air travel most unusual, some music about baseball (and some not)
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Handfasting (A Letter to Katrina)
- What’s New for the 8th of June: kibbles and bits — lots of fairy tales, steamy anime, a Cairo comic, new jazz, an archival grab bag, and a Kitchen tale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Cats
- What’s New for the 25th of May: new and notable SFF books; Murderbot on TV, and some Star Wars prequel movies; new jazz music and some tasty archival selections; food & steelworker strikes; and a novel Tarot deck
- What’s New for the 11th of May: Special Jack Zipes edition on fairy tales; an obsure Tam Lin film treatment; songs that tell stories; new jazz, Danish fiddle tunes, Norwegian women’s vocal music; Russian and Eastern European food and cooking, and more
- What’s New for the 27th of April: Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw’s fiction and Flytrap zine; Tea with Jane Austen; a fine French fairy tale film; some new jazz and archival francophone music reviews; and the Stones!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
Tag Archives: folk music
Ray Materick’s Life and Times
When I was scuffling around playing coffeehouses for bus fare and coffee, back before I even drank coffee, there were some models for me to emulate (or not). One of them was Stan Rogers, and my experiences with Stan will … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, singer-songwriter music
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Matapat’s Petit Fou
Big Earl Sellar wrote this review. Of the many beautiful regional musics that exist in my native Canada, one of my absolute favourites is traditional Quebecois music. (Incidentally, my number one choice is a variation of this genre, the Metis … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music, world music
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Bourque, Bernard & Lepage’s Matapat
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Bourque, Bernard & Lepage provide something not often seen or heard in a professional group: a foot percussionist. In fact, Benoit Bourque is one of Canada’s finest step dancers. He also uses his feet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic music, folk music, quebecois music
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Eddie Cole’s I Know What’s Going On
Christopher White wrote this review. Eddie Cole has given us a nifty aural gem with I Know What’s Going On. This Aussie singer songwriter and guitarist is ably supported on many tunes by drummer Tony Floyd and on a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, Singer-Songwriter
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Michael William Harrison’s First Time ‘Round
If you have liking for good honest folk music, recorded ‘live’ or in its natural form, then this is an album for you. Michael William Harrison grew up in Detroit, and after drifting in and out of country rock bands, … Continue reading
Jed Marum’s The Soul Of A Wanderer
Judith Gennett wrote this review. Jed Marum of Dallas, Texas, really does look like a Texas boy on the cover of The Soul Of A Wanderer. He’s not wearing cowboy clothes, but he IS wearing the shorts appropriate for living … Continue reading
Jed Marum’s Streets Of Fall River, and Jed Marum & Michael Harrison’s Into The West: Celts In Texas
Both of these albums can be filed under what I call Real Folk Music. Streets Of Fall River was first released independently by Jed Marum in 2000. On the album Into The West: Celts in Texas we find him performing … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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Phil Ochs’s The Early Years
No’am Newman wrote this review. Phil Ochs was one of the top folk protest singers in the US during the 1960s who never really became famous outside of his own field; in the ’70s he seemed to run out of … Continue reading
Various artists’ What’s That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs
Dean MacPherson wrote this review. Richard Thompson has one. Kurt Weill has a couple of them. Hell, even Mickey Mouse has a tribute album, so it’s about time somebody put together a collection of Phil Ochs cover tunes. Ochs, though … Continue reading
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Kyler’s A Flower Grows in Stone
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Kyler England’s newest album is a thing of beauty. Her previous album and EP dealt with the death of her mother from cancer, and of trying to comprehend how and why this could happen. … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, folk-rock, singer-songwriter music
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