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- What’s New for the 10th of November: a grab bag of books from our favorite authors; Richard Thompson and Stephane Grappelli on film; music from all over; and comfort food
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- What’s New for the 27th of October: The Byrds Live, Trader Joe’s Organic Hot Cocoa Mix, Some Excellent Music Reviews, Folkmanis Puppets of an Autumnal Nature, The Mouse Guard begins…
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- What’s New for the 13th of October: Elizabeth Bear tends a pot of turkey stock, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, A Video and Fiction set in India, Tasty music reviews, and music from Irish trad band Clannad
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Autumn is Here (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
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Tag Archives: rock and roll
The Pogues Red Roses For Me, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Peace & Love, Hell’s Ditch, Waiting for Herb, and Pogue Mahone
‘I’ve had a very, very happy life. If they stuck me in a box tomorrow I’d know I’ve had a bloody whale of a time. How many other people have made loads of money and done every drug under the … Continue reading
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Black 47’s On Fire
Mike Stiles wrote this review. Black 47 remains fronted by the peerless Larry Kirwan, who graces the earwaves with guitar when he’s not busy staging his eloquent vocals. The solid foundation of Thomas Hamlin (percussion) and Andrew Goodsight (bass, vocals) … Continue reading
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Black 47’s Black ’47, Black ’47 EP, Fire Of Freedom, Green Suede Shoes, Home of the Brave, Live in New York City, and Trouble in the Land
Time magazine said of Black 47: “Finally. Rock ‘n’ roll that means something again!” Bullocks, I say. If Black 47 was just a rock ‘n’ roll band, I wouldn’t be doing a comprehensive review of their albums. Black 47 is … Continue reading
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Bluehorses’ Dragons Milk and Coal
Bluehorses are a five-piece band based in South Wales. They are comprised of Nic Waulker, drummer, songwriter, arranger and producer; Liz Prenderghast (“Liz), electric fiddle and effects; and Emma on traditional wood-bodied fiddle. Guitarist Martyn Standing plays everything from gentle … Continue reading
Deep Purple’s Book of Taliesyn
I’ve written in a few other reviews of classic albums about the influence my older brother had on … not exactly my taste, but the albums that I heard in the late 1960s and early ’70s. This album, the sophomore … Continue reading
Tagged progressive rock, rock and roll
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Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and The Man Who Sold The World
I have seen Velvet Goldmine three times, and the last time I watched it, I asked if I could review it for GMR. When the two vintage Bowie CDs were thrown in, they swallowed the bait whole. So, out came … Continue reading
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Tagged David Bowie, glam rock, rock and roll
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The Waterboys’ A Rock In The Weary Land
No’am Newman wrote this review. Oh No’am, I know you’re disappointed with this disc; I know that you were expecting The Waterboys of Whole Of The Moon and Fisherman’s Blues and instead you got something else. But it’s not my … Continue reading
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Sam Cutler’s You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates
Oh, and a storm is threatening my very life today … Once upon a time, back when Marin County, California, was still the home of the Grateful Dead, I helped manage a bookstore, Mandrake Books, in San Rafael. It was … Continue reading
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Russell Smith’s Sunday Best: The Cream of the Solo Albums
Russell Smith and I go way back. I first heard of Russell Smith on a 1974 Jesse Winchester album, when Winchester covered Smith’s hilarious and poignant “Third Rate Romance.” Later Smith’s own band, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, had a hit … Continue reading
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David Ackles’ Five & Dime, Roger Chapman’s Mango Crazy, and Mail Order Magic, and Tommy Sands’ Man, Like WOW!
There is a huge market these days for obscure music. Once only available on vinyl, sometimes only on expensive import copies, now remastered and attractively compiled and packaged, this stuff is finding release by caring archival labels around the world. … Continue reading
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