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fRoots No. 421 (Vol. 40, No. 1), Summer 2018 ISSN 0951-1326
fRoots infostuff
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regulars/ in house 4 The Editor’s Box 5 The fRoots Playlist 6 Rooting About: The News 23 The Columnists 108 Reviews 110 Subscribe! Free CDs! 146 BIFF!
featured this issue 20 fRoots 69: your free album
25 Root Salad: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, Haley Heynderickx, Molly Tuttle, DagaDana, PicaPica, Eugenia Georgieva, Kirsty Merryn, My Bubba, NAFCo, Tallinn Music Week, Natalie Merchant.
38 Women Folk Musicians 47 Bands Of East London 50 You Are Wolf 53 Alan James 58 Ye Vagabonds 61 Monsieur Doumani 64 Lori Watson 67 Kacy & Clayton 70 King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal 73 Barrister Revisited 77 Eric Andersen 80 Keele 1965 95 Ethnoport Poznan 100 Folk Awards 2018 105 Emel Mathlouthi
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