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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
Shane MacGowan’s Popes’ Across the Broad Atlantic
Yet ‘nother CD featuring the vocal talents of Shane MacGowan, a man whose appearance would scare even the most hardened member of the Unseelie Court, showed up here for review this past week. (The photo on the Across The Broad … Continue reading
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Tagged Irish music, rock and roll
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Cordelia’s Dad’s What it is
Cordelia’s Dad is an indie rock band whose members have an ongoing love affair with really old-time American music. Throughout the 1990s they produced a series of albums that swung from punk to acoustic old-time and unaccompanied shape-note songs. On … Continue reading
The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s The Cherry Red Jukebox
“Well Cracklin’ Rosie said Let’s Get it On (won’t you Bang a Gong) / with a wall of sound and Da Doo Ron Ron / Gasoline Alley, Roll Away the Stone / Yeah, we’re singing Elvis all the way home.” … Continue reading
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Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity’s A Kind of Love In: 1967-1971
Pianist Brian Auger heard the sound of the Hammond B-3 (as played by Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff) in 1964, and gave up a promising career in jazz for R&B and the sound of the organ. Guitarist John McLaughlin was … Continue reading
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The Animals’ Gratefully Dead 1964-1968
Eric Burdon has been in the news recently. As of early July 2004 he has a new CD and a new book, neither of which we will discuss today. He is on tour, somewhere, playing a variation on the blues-based … Continue reading
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Rolling Stones’ Forty Licks
Rolling Stones! What the heck are the Rolling Stones doing in Green Man Review!?!? Having tapped virtually every other place in the world for source material, have they finally created the album of Elizabethan folk music that “Lady Jane” hinted … Continue reading
Hoyt Axton’s Flashes of Fire: Hoyt’s Very Best 1962-1990
Hoyt Axton was that lovable bear of a father in The Black Stallion, and Gremlins too, as I recall. It seemed so cool to have Hoyt as a dad. He knew what kids wanted … even if it got them … Continue reading
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Howe Gelb’s Ogle Some Piano
Tucson’s musical savant Howe Gelb has released an album of mostly instrumental keyboard music, Ogle Some Piano. It’s a curious disc, even by Gelb’s eccentric standards — 19 tracks of piano meanderings in a variety of styles: jazz, rock, pop, … Continue reading
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Jason Whelan’s Blur, The Tim Malloys’ Wrecked, and various artists’ Shite ‘n’ Onions, Volume 1
Here at GMR we like the raucous music that builds on the Anglo-Celtic traditions; from the Oysterband to the Pogues, we’re there. And this omnibus review finds me with a nice collection of raucous artists, from St. John’s Newfoundland to … Continue reading
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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s I Got Stoned and I Missed It: The Best from Shel Silverstein 1971-1979
Shel Silverstein has been much on the collective mind at GMR recently. Some of his books for children have been reviewed, and a second part is promised in the near future. As well as being a children’s author, Silverstein was … Continue reading
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