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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: rock and roll
Bushman’s Revenge’s Ah, Les Vaches!
Ah, Les Vaches! is the 12th album by Bushman’s Revenge, a jazz fusion power trio based in Oslo. They’ve been making music since 2003 and made their first record 20 years ago. I found out about these guys in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz music, Nordic music, rock and roll
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Gangar’s Dreng
My favorite head-banging Norwegian metal prog folk rock band is back! Gangar’s second full-length Dreng continues in their established vein of playing knock-em-dead versions of Scandinavian folk songs and dance tunes on Hardanger fiddle plus rock instruments. The Oslo based … Continue reading
Sekvoya’s Gathering of Enchanted Herbs, and The Magic of Slavic Rituals
I’m not sure how I missed this one when it came out, except to say it was the summer of 2025 and stuff was weird. But when the second release in this planned trio of EPs from the Serbian psychedelic … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, rock and roll, world music
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Los Super Seven’s Los Super Seven
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. It was music producer Dan Goodman who envisioned gathering together a wide variety of musicians to cut an album that would show the wide influence and universal appeal of Mexican traditional music … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music, rock and roll, world music
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Ceili Rain’s Say ‘KAY-Lee’
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. I like this Christian Celtic album very much (it is also available under the name Ceili Rain.) It is cheerful, enthusiastic, and well-crafted. Those people who are more comfortable with a bleak, cynical view of … Continue reading
Paul Simon’s Live From Philadelphia
This concert from Philadelphia’s Tower Theater was filmed in 1980, the same year that Paul Simon released his feature film One Trick Pony. The Simon-scripted One Trick Pony was the story of a once popular folksinger who’d had a hit … Continue reading
Lydia Loveless’ Somewhere Else
I’ve been following Lydia Loveless since her first CD The Only Man was released on a tiny independent label in 2010, through all of the lazy comparisons to Loretta Lynn and Neko Case, to her signing to major indie Bloodshot … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, rock and roll
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NRBQ’s Dummy
NRBQ is one of the longest-lasting rock bands in history, and while they’ve never had a hit, they’ve made almost uniformly strong records for their entire career. Started as the New Rhythm & Blues Quintet (later Quartet) in 1967, the … Continue reading
Dan Bern & the IJBC’s Fleeting Days
Listening to the big guy’s new CD laying in bed the one his producer thinks he never shoulda made but it gets me going gets me into the shower what a shock to be awake at this early hour Dan … Continue reading
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Tagged rock and roll, Singer-Songwriter
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John Sebastian’s John B. Sebastian, Tarzana Kid, and Welcome Back
John Sebastian’s combo The Lovin’ Spoonful was a folk-pop crossover in the mid-1960s, but by 1968 he was ready to strike out on his own. He had been around the New York folk scene since the early years of the … Continue reading
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