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- 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)
- 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
Tag Archives: folk music
Various artists’ Heroes & Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Songs that tell stories have long been a major component of folklore worldwide. And in the arid lands where the southwestern United States meets northern Mexico, a type of ballad called the corrido is still an important component of everyday … Continue reading
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The Kennedys’ Stand
Pete and Maura Kennedy are back with another healthy dose of their signature brand of upbeat, spiritual folk-rock. Stand is their sixth release since 1994, and their first for Koch. The Kennedys’ music is similar in tone to that of … Continue reading
Peggy Seeger’s Heading For Home
Peggy Seeger is a member of one of the pre-eminent families of music in America. The Seeger clan and their collaborators (and sometimes antagonists) the Lomaxes, together are largely responsible for the survival and revival of American folk music in … Continue reading
Jevan Cole and Jan Van Dijk’s Tunes of Curly Nature
This review was contributed by Alistair Brown. Very occasionally, those lucky enough to be wandering around the secret corners of some large summer festival will come across the kind of impromptu session where two musicians, apparently separated at birth, have … Continue reading
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Tim Harrison’s Wheatfield with Crows
Lenora Rose contributed this review. Tim Harrison is a classic guitar playing singer-songwriter, with several obvious merits; he’s a tuneful singer with a pleasant voice, and a decidedly skilled guitar stylist. There’s Spanish and classical guitar technique here if I’m … Continue reading
Tanglefoot’s Captured Alive
The group known as Tanglefoot began as a three-piece in the early 1980s. They played Canadian folk songs with … shall we say … vigour! The group grew and changed, but their enthusiasm continued, and they began to write their … Continue reading
Chuck Brodsky’s The Baseball Ballads
Jealous lovers with guns. Racism. Illicit drugs. The pain and confusion of growing up. And … spies? All of these, except perhaps the last, are typical fodder for American singer-songwriters. But this isn’t a typical record of folk songs. Troubador … Continue reading
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Joan Baez’s 5 and Farewell, Angelina
These two albums present a snapshot of the American folk music scene during the pivotal years in which the 1960s became The Sixties. The popular young American President John F. Kennedy had just been assassinated, The Beatles began the British … Continue reading
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Joan Baez’s In Concert and In Concert Part 2
In the fall of 1962 and again a year later, the Vanguard label did a strange and wonderful thing. It followed 1961’s chart success of Joan Baez’s first two albums with another two. But these were live recordings, and they … Continue reading
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Roger McGuinn’s Treasures from the Folk Den
Roger McGuinn was one of the founders of the folk-rock giants The Byrds, which earned him a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But before he strapped on and plugged in his Rickenbacker 12-string, he was a … Continue reading