This month’s issue
Here's what's in the current double issue of fRoots, No. 302/303, August/September 2008
- fROOTS 31
- Your latest exclusively compiled free CD - 15 tracks of listening pleasure from some of our favourite recent and forthcoming releases.
- 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: England's Broadcaster and Brian Peters, Norway's Valkyrien All-Stars, the multi-cultural Max Pashm Band and Grand Union Orchestra, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, Tibet's Tashi Lhunpo Monks, and Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya in the Rocket Launcher questionnaire.
- UNIFORMLY BRILLIANT!
- Their second album in more than forty years showed that Les Amazones De Guinée are still a force to be reckoned with. Katharina Lobeck unfolds their fascinating story.
- IN FOSTER CARE
- One of the better English folk albums of recent times has popped up from an unexpected source. Veteran Chris Foster has been on a mission in Iceland, and Colin Irwin wants to know why…
- CAREFUL NOW…
- Watch out for Very Be Careful, who are finding a new audience for proper hard core roots Colombian cumbia. Jan Fairley met them on a recent visit to London.
- A LOUNGE TOO FAR
- In the fifty years since the creation of the beast that is Bossa Nova, many Brazilians fell out of love with it while the UK and Japan hung in there. Now it’s having some birthday parties. Jon Lusk defends the genre…
- NOMAD'S LAND
- Somehow, local music stays alive in remote villages in Anatolia. Inspired by the recent Yayla recording, Nick Hobbs goes to the source.
- SLACK KEY LADIES
- The art of Hawaiian slack key guitar is no longer a male preserve, if it ever was. Mike Cooper talks to Cindy Combs about her project to get the kiho’alu women out on the road together.
- RIGHTS & WRONGS
- Proposed changes to the European copyright laws on sound recordings may be about to rob us of access to half a century of vital cultural resources. Or maybe not. Elizabeth Kinder unravels the tangled arguments.
- CHICAGO NOW
- It’s a full half century since the heyday of classic Chicago blues. Garth Cartwright took himself off to feel the chill in the big city today.
- LIVE!
- Ravi Shankar's last, Pentangle's latest.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon pays tribute to RVW.
- CELEBRITY CORNER
- Dr Miriam Stoppard addresses a mother’s concerns about Wamato by Les Amazones De Guinée, as told to Gordon Neill. Maybe.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.