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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: rock and roll
Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life
There’s a funny thing that happens whenever Dylan releases an album that the critics like (I think it averages out at one every three releases). When they fall all over themselves praising an album, as they did 2006’s Modern Times, … Continue reading
Flight Plan: A look back at the Jefferson Airplane
A little over forty years ago, some people got a few friends and a few bands together, and threw a party. It went down in a farmer’s back forty in Bethel, New York, and things got a little hot and … Continue reading
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Tagged Jefferson Airplane, rock and roll, San Francisco
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Taj Mahal’s Taj Mahal: Autobiography of a Bluesman
Born in New York, Henry Saint Clair Fredericks has been known as Taj Mahal for most of his sixty years. The original Taj Mahal is an icon of beauty and remembrance representing love and amazing craftsmanship which stands outside of … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, folk music, rock and roll, Taj Mahal
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XIXA’s Bloodline
XIXA’s dual frontmen, Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan, seem to have internalized the Tucson musical ethos of collaboration and inclusivity epitomized by Giant Sand and Calexico. It’s no mystery, since the two have played with both of those bands, the … Continue reading
Warren Zevon’s Recordings
Now that I am dead my agent finally said he wanted to have lunch with me Now that I’m deceased my record sales increased I’m making lots of royalties I’m a composer decomposing I’m on the rocker’s roll of fame … Continue reading
Crystal Zevon’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon died in 2003, within a week of Johnny Cash. While he was nowhere near the cultural icon that Cash was, Zevon was one of the most important voices in popular music in the second half of the 20th … Continue reading
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Warren Zevon’s Warren Zevon
Rhino Records, in conjunction with Asylum, has just re-issued Warren Zevon’s first album! The self-titled collection is part of Rhino’s Collector’s Edition line, which seeks to re-introduce “legendary albums remastered, and expanded…with previously un-released material, extensive liner notes and rare … Continue reading
Nap Eyes’ Thought Rock Fish Scale
Nap Eyes is an indie-rock quartet out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their new album Thought Rock Fish Scale is a tuneful, catchy trip through the kind of angst that might trouble a young biochemist obsessed with guitars, words and rock … Continue reading
Thin Lizzy at the University of Limerick Concert Hall, Limerick, Ireland
John O’Regan wrote this review. Ending the Irish leg of their 2005 European Tour, Thin Lizzy arrived in Limerick to play at the University of Limerick Concert Hall to a capacity house. During the halcyon days of the 1970’s and 1980’s, Thin Lizzy … Continue reading
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Mount Moriah’s How to Dance
Mount Moriah’s third album How to Dance is a tour of the American South. Not so much a geographic tour, though plenty of places are name-checked, but more a survey of the spiritual, literary and mythic landscape of singer-songwriter-guitarist Heather … Continue reading