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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
Bill Miller’s Ghostdance
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. Bill Miller has an amazing ability to tell a story, write music, sing a song, inspire a listener and express emotions. He can rock and rail about adversity in one breath, and in the next … Continue reading
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack – Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is a living treasure, a walking and talking (and talking and talking) encyclopedia of American folk music. Although he has been singing for more than 50 years, his recorded output is woefully slim. Until somebody produces a … Continue reading
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Cordelia’s Dad’s Spine
Cordelia’s Dad started as a punk band in the late 1980s, but within a few years was approaching older American songs and tunes with a punk-informed verve, energy and wit. The music they play, and their attitude toward it, places … Continue reading
Ed Cray’s The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs
Brendan Foreman wrote this review. Anyone who remembers anything of their childhood will recall how important those dirty words and dirty jokes were to their very existence. Without the ability to transgress society’s boundaries simply by uttering a phrase like … Continue reading
Various artists’ Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks: Volume One, Along the Eastern Crescent
Fiddle music was once endemic to nearly every region of North America, including Mexico and certainly Canada. Most regions developed their own peculiar styles — the best known include southern Louisiana (Cajun), Texas, Appalachia, New England, and Cape Breton Island … Continue reading
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Kelly Joe Phelps, Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon – October 23, 1999
Singer-guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps held a crowd of perhaps 500 spellbound for two hours, with his unique blend of folk, blues, gospel and jazz. Himself a capable writer of elliptical ballads, Phelps’ main strengths are his offbeat interpretations of folk … Continue reading
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Kelly Joe Phelps’s Shine Eyed Mister Zen
Kelly Joe Phelps is firmly located in folk and country blues, but he is one of those musicians who are impossible to pigeon-hole. It’s tempting to describe him by comparison with his myriad musical influences, but that would miss by … Continue reading
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Sandy Bull’s Inventions, E Pluribus Unum, Jukebox School of Music, Vehicles, Steel Tears
Sandy Bull is a legend — if not with the general public, then surely among his fellow musicians. And like most legendary figures, he is both larger than life and has feet of clay. Of his early work in the … Continue reading
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Sandy Bull’s Re-Inventions: Best of the Vanguard Years
I wasn’t familiar with Sandy Bull’s name when I got this CD, and as the very informative booklet accompanying the CD said, I am apparently in fairly good company. Sandy started recording for Vanguard Records in 1962, and spent 10 … Continue reading
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