So who are these artists that have been discovered by the mainstream media?, yes, I do dispute it, because ROOTS MUSIC is not featured extensively in the mainstream media in England.
In Ireland it has a higher profile in the mainstream media [but Froots is not responsible]
Folknacious your problem is that despite your perceived interest in roots music, you have the blinkered views of a little Englander, all the time you talk from an english perspective[ what happens in England].
dont you think that the mainstream media might possibly be different in Ireland or other countries, there is life beyond Walthamstow you know, even if there is not much life in it.