This month’s issue
Here’s what’s in fRoots, No. 325, July 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: left field Glasgow folkists Trembling Bells; US rootsters The Wiyos; London Afro-funksters Yaaba Funk; Alan Lomax in Haiti; Folk Awards nominees Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts; the World Cirty Music Village; and Seth Lakeman in our Rocket Launcher.
- KOERNERING THE MARKET
- America’s most original folk blues stomper Spider John Koerner returns to the UK later this summer for his first tour in nearly thirty years. Ian Anderson catches up with a hero.
- CUBAN CACTUS
- Amparo Sanchez has created a near perfect blend of Spain, Cuba and the Arizona desert for her first post-Amparanoia album. Elizabeth Kinder is charmed.
- REVEALING RORY
- Rory McLeod’s new album is honest to the bone, but he makes no apologies for it. Dr Colin Irwin is in…
- TURKISH DEBATE
- How to run a record label with integrity in the face of political persecution, market collapse and declining standards. Turkey’s Kalan is a shining example. Nick Hobbs talks to label owner Hasan Saltık.
- SOFTLY SQUEEZED
- Tony Hall is one of the English melodeon players that other melodeon players most admire. Chris Conder heads off to visit him in deepest Norfolk.
- POWER OF BABEL
- Marseille’s Babel Med is the annual French meeting place for world music people. Elisavet Sotiriadou went on a voyage of discovery.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon strip.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.