Ian Anderson, Author at fRoots Magazine

fRoots Radio – November, 2018

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...

From Southern Rag No.3 (the original title of fRoots), January 1980 Some of the most refreshing...

Shirley Collins’ career as a singer started in the late ’50s, with an initial leaning towards...