Taplas is a folk music magazine which covers the genre in Wales and its border areas of England.
While firmly based in Wales and the borders, and running out of a head office in Cardiff, Taplas's focus includes folk, traditional, bluegrass, and world music.
Features are often commissioned if the subject is performing in the core area during the time scale of the magazine's shelf life, but not exclusively so. There is almost always some coverage of at least one Wales-based artist in each issue.
Each issue features news, in-depth features, reviews, listings and some comment. Since 2007 the magazine has also had a regular feature on traditional dance, On Your Feet, which profiles a traditional dance side or team within the core area of the magazine's coverage. The magazine is published in black and white, with a full colour cover. Extra colour pages are often added for the festival supplement edition, in April/May of each year.
Taplas has also published a series of cover-mount CDs, and runs a folk festival guide supplement in the April/May issue each year.
She was sitting on a stool in a little bar called the Seldom Scene When I walked over and said hi introduced myself
And what's your name I asked she just smiled
She was wearin' a tiny gold chain with the initials SS on the front And I said wait a minute you are Susie Smith she shook her head
Okay you're Sally Simpson...Sarah and before I could finish
She put her hand on mine and said look it's not important
And I said okay I'll just call you Double S and she nodded
And I said what are you drinkin' Double S she said Scotch'n'Soda
And I said Okay Double S one Scotch'n'Soda comin' up
You live around here I asked
No she said just killin' time till the morning
I got an early plane back to California I live near San Simeon
Oh and you'll be flyin' on a 7-0-7 no doubt I said
How did you know? she asked oh I guess I'm just super-smart
You gonna spend the rest of the night in this bar Double S
No she said I have a motel room I'm at the Surfing Sand
Can I give you a lift thanks
I rented a car but I don't drive it too well she answered
It's a stick-ship haha Double S you are something-special I said
And paid the town and we walked out in the cool evening breeze
She said across the seat and snuggled up close to my side
And I began to run my fingers through her hair
It was soft'n'silky. I opened the door to her room
My lips found her lips and I held her close
And whispered you are a super-sexy lady she simply smiled
I could feel her body slowly soften as her sensuous soul
Swiftly swept me into sublime serenity
Her plane left just as the morning
Sun began to softly streak the starry sky
She kissed me a soft solyuna waved a sultry so long from the window
And I never saw Double S again
Right now she's soaring somewhere above the clouds
And I'm walking home on one
And I just realized I never did find out what Double S stood for