The Dirty Linen Web Guide and Special Info

The Internet has grown to millions of pages of information, and we are not even going to try to keep it all listed here. But there are noble folks out there doing incredible amounts of work to keep you informed on the folk-roots-world music scene, so we will offer you some choice spots to visit, and links to the major places to start.

Please note that all web sites listed have been checked and were running as of this date this issue went to press, but due to the liquid nature of the Internet, Dirty Linen cannot be responsible for them still being valid. Please do not contact us to ask about sites no longer working -- we don't know what happened to them either!

Have a link you want to see online? www.Rootster.Com is an internet site that has an edited database of good, informative links for roots music and other cultural interests. Please submit submit your links there!

Newsgroups and Mailing Lists | Important Resources | Friends in the Press

Femmusic (www.femmusic.com) is the new national online magazine focusing on emerging women in music and covers all genres of music. The November issue has interviews with Patty Larkin, Lucy Kaplansky, the band Low, and Liz Larizza, as well as CD reviews, Artist of the Month, and many other features.

Jim McGuire's Nashville Portraits website displays some of his photographs from 30 years of working in Nashville.

Ilow Kernow (www.ilow.kernow.eu.org) is a site set up by and for Cornish music which aims to make Cornish traditional music more accessible. This site provides a traditional music archive, a listing of artists, CD distribution, and an on-line music shop.

The MPB Zone: Musica Popular Brasileira has changed its name to The Brazilian Sound and relocated its web site to www.thebraziliansound.com.

Recent Links of Interest
www.accordionlinks.com has every possible link to all things accordion.
www.folkthings.com is the place to search for information about the world of folk dance.
www.arcmusic.co.uk is the site for ARC Music, a world music label, which has now added RealAudio to every one of its 363 albums featured on the site.
Island Ireland (www.islandireland.com) is an excellent new Internet guide to Irish art, culture, music, and environment.

Important Resources
These are the sites to check for comprehensive lists of links to roots music!

New NTAMA, Journal of African Music and Popular Culture

Todd McComb's Recording Lists offer insights into Arabic, Indian and western classical traditions.
The Cajun and Creole Page!
AFRICAN MUSIC. This page is non-commercial, informative and displayed by country. There have been major updates to these pages this winter. Look again!
The Gumbo Pages, an excellent source of radio and music news from around the country
Ceolas celtic music archive - If you want Celtic, look here.

The Folk Press
Believe it or not, it's not all Java-theater and blinking banners... there's still lots to READ on the internet. Dirty Linen can't do it all alone!

fROOTS... The U.K. magazine covering folk and roots music. A promo site with samples from the current issue, and the huge U.K. and Europe festival listing. Good links to other resources, too.
RootsWorld, an online-only magazine of world and roots music. Available only on the web or via e-mail.
Sing Out! is one of America's oldest and most quoted folk music magazines. A promotional site for the magazine, plus some midi fiiles you can download of the songs in some issues.
Musical Traditions Internet Magazine focuses on truly traditional music from around the world. A net only magazine with all content available online.
Rhythm calls itself a "world music magazine with lifestyle oriented coverage." This site is a promotional site for the magazine with some reviews, plus tour schedules and info on radio stations.
NTAMA, Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
The Living Tradition, "the home of folk music on the web."
Many Dirty Linen writers have their own pages of reviews, archives, sounds and interviews.

Internet Mailing Lists and Usenet Groups

The Folk Music List is a high traffic converstion about American folk music. To subscribe, send mail to listserv@nysernet.org with this request: "SUBSCRIBE FOLK_MUSIC Your Fullname"

uk.music.folk - Erudite and informative, contentious and lively, here is where you can discuss why all music in the British Isles is not Celtic.
rec.music.folk is one of the busiest and most diverse of the musical bulletin boards on the 'net.
rec.music.folk.old-time is where fans of Charlie Poole meet the Wretched Refuse String Band.
rec.music.celtic covers what you would expect...
rec.music.bluenote.blues is also pretty obvious...
alt.music.world is a small group discussing the indefinable "world music" genre, and includes folks from all over the planet.
rec.music.afro-latin is another low-volume group discussing music from Africa and the Caribbean, with plenty of knowledgeable folks involved.
alt.music.african and alt.music.arabic cover just what they say.
Looking for a surprise? Try alt.exotic-music