Ian Anderson, Author at fRoots Magazine

Weird and Wonderful Tales | Bâton Bleu

Decidedly odd, but in an amazingly good way. Bâton Bleu are a duo of Maria Laurent – who we’ve...

And so, with the last thirty years’ ‘crate diggers’ having thoroughly explored the ‘golden ages’...

It’s Podwireless! Our regular podcast features lots of the music you’ll read about in the pages of...

Welcome to the all new, better looking, proper 21st century fRoots web site. Our old familiar one...

Welcome to the third of our new, bigger, better-quality quarterly editions. Reaction to the new...

From zero to fanboy in a few hours. The jiffy bag discharged the theatrically packaged CD onto my...

Easily the best part of this year’s Eurovision ‘Song’ Contest was the opening fado sequence, with...

To the list of entrancing women singers of Judeo-Spanish or Ladino music such as the more familiar...

As Private Eye’s spoof Jeremy Corbyn column always starts, “Hello, it’s me again.” Those of you...

In the 1980s, I used to make pilgrimages to West Africa and return with piles of cassettes bought...