fRoots (pronounced "eff-Roots", originally Folk Roots) was a specialist music magazine published in the UK between 1979 and 2019.

It specialised in folk and world music, and featured regular compilation downloadable albums, with occasional specials.

In 1979, Southern Rag was founded[2] by folk musician Ian A. Anderson with Caroline Hurrell and Lawrence Heath.

After a 2017 Kickstarter campaign,[3] it was re-launched in April 2018 as a larger quarterly magazine, including a compilation album with every issue.

[5][6] The fRoots Critics Poll Album of the Year was determined by a panel of "hundreds of experts" in the UK and internationally:[7] Between 2002 and 2008 the award was incorporated into the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music.