This month’s issue
Here's what's in the current issue of fRoots, No. 313, July 2009
- THE EDITOR’S BOX
- Ian Anderson’s comment column. Read it here
- fROOTS PLAYLIST
- Recent stuff we like.
- CHARTS & LISTS
- Specialist and general roots music album sales and airplay charts. Sample them here
- REVIEWS
- Our key section reviewing all the latest CDs and more - loads bite the dust. No punches pulled! We’ve got some here for you to read now
- ROOTING ABOUT
- What’s happening: packed pages of festivals, gigs, tours, radio, CDs and all kinds of roots-related stuff. The most you’ll find anywhere…
- ROOT SALAD
- A cross-section of featurettes: a photo-inspired reminisce about Alexis, Big Bill, Jack & Derroll; new folk string quartet Methera, English songwriter PJ Harvey, London-based Portuguese fado singer Liana; and Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour in the Rocket Launcher.
- LOOKING BACK WITH BAOBAB
- Since their 2001 comeback, veterans Orchestra Baobab have just got better and better. Katharina Lobeck Kane got them telling their story in their own words.
- EXTREME VISION
- The late Peter Bellamy was one of the great originals of English traditional song, whose influence is strong on younger singers like Jon Boden and Damien Barber. Colin Irwin looks back at his life and achievements.
- MASTHEADS
- The Master Musicians Of Jajouka, the troupe that William S. Burroughs called the ‘four thousand-year-old rock and roll band’ are back on a post-Bush roll. John Kruth found them jamming with Ornette Coleman.
- STRANGELY AGAIN
- Dr Strangely Strange, purveyors of quintessential 1960s acoustic oddness, are back in our midst again. Colin Irwin travels to Co. Cork to hear their tale.
- SEASONAL FARE
- Witchseason blazed a three-year trail in the late 1960s that is still visible four decades later. Joe Boyd reminisces about some heady days.
- A CRITICAL EYE
- Photographer/ writer Val Wilmer has been following and documenting blues, jazz, African and Caribbean music for over fifty years. Dave Peabody heard her own stories, and those behind some of her pictures.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon looks at how we communicated.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.