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Ian A. Anderson

Ian A. Anderson (born 26 July 1947 in Weston-super-Mare) is an English magazine editor, folk musician and broadcaster.

Country blues and The Village Thing

Anderson first performed in his home town of Weston-super-Mare as a member of the Backwater Jooks Band[1] and came to prominence as a member of the Bristol based country blues scene of the mid to late 1960s, performing live and on record, both solo, with Al Jones and Elliott Jackson as the trio "Anderson Jones Jackson", and as a duo with Mike Cooper. The middle initial was added at a later date to avoid confusion with Ian Anderson of the band Jethro Tull. In December 1969, with John Turner of Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, he conceived the record label The Village Thing, for which he was also a producer. The label's first release was in 1970. Village Thing "championed" a number of folk musicians, predominantly from the Bristol area.

English country blues and world music

In the 1970s he moved from the West Country to Farnham, Surrey, performing with Maggie Holland as Hot Vultures and coining the term "English country blues" before becoming immersed in world music and forming a number of collaborations with musicians from various nations and genres. He was instrumental in founding the Farnham Folk Festival which was held annually at Farnham Maltings for some years.

fRoots magazine

In 1979 he founded Southern Rag, as a local quarterly folk music magazine, in a simple A5 format. After 13 issues it had become very popular and respected well beyond the local area so Anderson took the decision to make it a glossy, A4 sized magazine with national distribution, under a new title, Folk Roots. Anderson moved to London where he made the magazine a monthly publication and became well-known not only for its authoritative writing and outspokenness but for its campaigning for wider acceptance of both British folk music and world music. It is now renamed fRoots.[2] Anderson has actively promoted world music, supporting tours by artists, particularly from Africa, who were previously unknown in the U.K.

Rogue Records

As a spin-off from these activities in the 1980s, he founded an independent record label, Rogue Records, which provided a platform for both established and new artists, concentrating on world music. The label was the first to release recordings in the U.K. by Senegal's Baaba Maal, Madagascar's Tarika, Gambian kora duo Dembo Konte and Kausu Kuyateh, and Tex-Mex accordionist Flaco Jimenez. He has also founded a record label, The Weekend Beatnik, which specialises in the reissue of folk and world music albums in CD format.

Broadcasting

Anderson has presented the occasional series for BBC Radio 2, hosted a World music program on "Jazz FM" and then spend 10 years broadcasting on the BBC World Service. He now hosts "fRoots Radio" on the web.[3]

Currently[when?] he is collaborating, as one third of Blue Blokes 3, with Lu Edmonds (formerly of the Mekons, Billy Bragg’s Blokes, 3 Mustaphas 3, The Damned, Kirsty MacColl's band and others) on vocals, cumbus, saz, guitar and more, and Ben Mandelson (Billy Bragg’s Blokes, 3 Mustaphas 3, Tiger Moth, and more) on vocals, mandolin, baritone bouzouki, banjo, tenor guitar, etc.

Discography

Main article: Discography of Ian A. Anderson
  • Anderson Jones Jackson (7" vinyl EP) [Note 1]

Saydisc 33SD125 (1966)

  • Almost the Country Blues (7" vinyl EP)

Saydisc SD134 (1967)

  • Stereo Death Breakdown (12" vinyl album) [Note 2]

Liberty LBS 83242 (1969)

  • The Inverted World (12" vinyl album) [Note 3]

Saydisc SDM 159 (1968)

  • Book of Changes (12" vinyl album)

Fontana STL 5542 (1970)

  • Royal York Crescent (12" vinyl album)

The Village Thing VTS3 (1970)

  • A Vulture Is Not A Bird You Can Trust (12" vinyl album)

The Village Thing VTS9 (1971)

  • Singer Sleeps On as Blaze Rages (12" vinyl album)

The Village Thing VTS18 (1972)

  • Carrion On (12" vinyl album) [Note 4]

EMI Bestseller 4C054 96947 (Belgium), Red Rag RRR005 (UK) (1975)

  • The East Street Shakes (12" vinyl album) [Note 4]

Red Rag RRR015 (1977)

  • Up The Line (12" vinyl album) [Note 4]

Plant Life PLR018 (1979)

  • No Rules (12" vinyl album) [Note 5]

Dingles DIN 323 (1982)

  • Home and Deranged (12" vinyl album) [Note 5]

Rogue FMSL 2004 (1983)

  • Tiger Moth (12" vinyl album) [Note 6]

Rogue (1984)

  • The Continuous Preaching Blues (CD album) [Note 3]

Appaloosa (Italy) AP 037-2 (1984)

  • Howling Moth (CD, 12" vinyl album) [Note 6]

Rogue FMSD 5012 (1988)

  • Salt of The Earth (Song Of Praise) (12" vinyl EP) [Note 7]

Rogue 12FMS 106 (1988)

  • The World at Sixes and Sevens (12" vinyl EP) [Note 7]

Rogue 12FMS6-7 (1989)

  • Vulturama (CD compilation of Hot Vultures tracks plus previously unreleased) [Note 4]

Weekend Beatnik WEBE 9031 (1998)

  • Unruly (CD compilation of English Country Blues Band tracks plus previously unreleased) [Note 5]

Weekend Beatnik WEBE 9040 (2002)

  • Mothballs plus (CD compilation of Tiger Moth tracks plus remix) [Note 6]

Weekend Beatnik WEBE 9043 (2004)

  • Stubble (CD album) [Note 8]

Fledg'ling FLED 3068 (2008)

  • Stereo Death Breakdown (CD re-issue of 1969 album with 'bonus' tracks) [Note 2]

Fledg'ling FLED 3073 (2009)

  • Time Is Ripe (CD compilation of Village Thing label tracks plus previously unreleased)

Weekend Beatnik WEBE 9045 (2010)

Notes
  1. As a member of Anderson Jones Jackson
  2. Ian Anderson's Country Blues Band
  3. With Mike Cooper
  4. With Maggie Holland, as Hot Vultures
  5. As a member of the English Country Blues Band
  6. As a member of Tiger Moth[4]
  7. As a member of Orchestre Super Moth
  8. As a member of Blue Blokes 3[5]

References

  1. ^ "Bristol Folk" by Mark Jones, published by Bristol Folk Publications, 2009 (ISBN 978 0 9563531 0 8)
  2. ^ http://www.frootsmag.com/ fRoots magazine
  3. ^ http://www.frootsmag.com/radio/ fRoots radio
  4. ^ http://tigermoth.nu/ Tiger Moth
  5. ^ http://blueblokes3.com/ Blue Blokes 3

External links

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