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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: folk music
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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Tagged Americana music, folk music
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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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Various artists’ The Rose & The Briar
This recording is a collection of American ballads, and a strange and wondrous thing it is. The CD accompanies a hefty book of essays, articles, letters and even a classic comic strip about the American ballad, edited by Sean Wilentz … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, ballads, folk music
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Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus’s The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
A while back Gary Whitehouse reviewed a compilation CD entitled The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad here in these very pages. It was a CD containing twenty American “ballads.” The book of the … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music
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