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- THE EDITOR’S BOX
- Ian Anderson’s comment column. Read it here
- RANTING AND REELING
- Tim Chipping’s monthly column. Read it here
- THE ELUSIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST
- Elizabeth Kinder’s monthly 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
- London blues harmonica busker Errol Linton, a trio of Canadian introductions – to songwriter The Weather Station, bluegrassers The Slocan Ramblers and Celtic siblings Cassie & Maggie – Ireland’s Declan O’Rourke, Samaritan singer Sofi Tsedaka and Stu Hanna of England’s Megson answering the Rocket Launcher questions.
- EAST ENDERS, BEAT ENDERS
- Stick In The Wheel continue to get up the noses of polite Laura Ashley folk. Hah! Tim Chipping catches up with a band who really epitomise the fRoots cover tag-line ‘local music from out there.’
- SUPER ATTIRAIL BAND
- Morricone meets the Mustaphas in stories that have no words. What’s not to like? Chris Nickson introduces French band L’Attirail who you really should know.
- DEEP WEIRDSHIRE
- Sproatly Smith are quietly making their native Herefordshire the capital county of psych folk. Steve Hunt visits the wicker throne…
- JULIE IN THE CROWN
- There are some popular folk singers who play safe and keep making the same album. And then there’s Julie Fowlis. Tim Chipping updates the files.
- REMBETIKAMERICA
- Dimitris Mystakidis is entranced by the music that Greek immigrant guitarists made in America 100 years ago. Elisavet Sotiriadou hears about the real old Greek blues.
- THE HAPPY AGE
- Greenwich Village and Woodstock veteran Happy Traum was recently in the UK telling tales of the era. Ken Hunt sampled a few.
- DALTON JUNCTION
- Karen Dalton, alias K. T. Kruel, was a shadowy US folk figure who has attracted posthumous legendary status. John Kruth explains why.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon strip.
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