This month’s issue
Here’s what’s in fRoots, No. 321, March 2010
- THE EDITOR’S BOX
- Ian Anderson’s comment column.
- fROOTS PLAYLIST
- Recent stuff we like.
- CHARTS & LISTS
- Specialist and general roots music album sales and airplay charts.
- REVIEWS
- Our key section reviewing all the latest CDs and more - loads bite the dust. No punches pulled!
- 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: Chicha revival pioneers Chicha Libre; Newcastle's Monster Ceilidh Band; Corsica's A Filetta; Vietnam's Hung Thanh, English folk duo Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell; and Tim Eriksen in the Rocket Launcher.
- THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH
- The Unthanks are the Marmite of English folk music, attracting adulatory praise and fierce vitriol in equal measure. Colin Irwin opens the doors to Unthankland.
- BANJO ADVENTURER
- Bela Fleck travelled around Africa with his banjo and recording gear. Banning Eyre hears how this had a notable effect on his philosophy of music making, also winning him a 2010 Grammy.
- AYE AYE CAP'N!
- Bellowhead had a nautical theme for their New Year’s Eve spectacular at London’s Festival Hall. We have a photo spread.
- A PLACE TOO SMALL
- The shocking loss of Lhasa De Sela on 1st January robbed us of one of the most expressive, individual voices of the past decade. Jan Fairley had been working on a Lhasa feature for fRoots when the news hit.
- BEIJING FOLLIES
- It’s a tough life being a journalist reporting for fearless fRoots. But David Hutcheon’s on board for the sweeney to Beijing to cover Sa Dingding’s latest album launch, eat giant aquatic centipede and buy panda hats.
- SUDANI VOODOO
- For a tradition allegedly down to its last practitioners, Rango give a very good impression of being alive. Elizabeth Kinder gets down with the Zar stars.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon strip.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.