I'd imagine that he is rightly and fairly fed up with Mudcat, Jack, for the huge number of occasions that his name is slagged off and dragged through the mud of Mudcat, often very unfairly.

More unfairly than his comment about you, me and everybody else here in that review? I don't think so.


People seem to object to his taking a broad view of folk, traditional and roots music but the quality of design and writing is far superior to anything else in this field

I would agree about the writing - the design is nothing special (or wasn't when I last saw a copy). But I detest the narrowness of his perspective - the only stuff he cares about is what you can buy as a commodity.


Think of the all the outstanding talents in the folk and traditional scene in the UK and then check here to see if they have been covered in fRoots. The chances are that they will have been.

I just checked Jimmy McHugh, probably the most influential musician ever in the Irish music scene in Scotland, but who never made any recordings. Not a mention. If you're not a product (and hence a source of advertising revenue) you don't count for Froots.