Good points Les (from Hull) but I have to say that anything dubbed "world music roots etc" can elicit a mild groan from me. There is some wonderful stuff under such a banner but also, as you say, a bunch of crap too.

My mild groan is directed to those others who profess to love the music purely because it is produced by black or brown people, regardless of the quality, in order to impress on everyone just how non-racist they are being. Which probably comes from them having subconcious doubts about their real feelings about racial issues. The knee-jerk reaction to "antiworldmusicrootsman" seems to bear this out.

cheers, Terry