Definition of "rootsy" [rootsy]

• Unadorned; suggestive of earlier times. (adjective)

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• "Babyface is the last guy you'd call rootsy, but the blues-drenched lead guitar of guest Eric Clapton seems to have done for him what that tea-steeped madeleine did for Proust."
• "Its 13 songs are delivered in a style that defies pigeonholing but might be described as a rootsy amalgam of folk, country, bluegrass, rock and pop - even a jab of punk-style dynamics here and there."
• "All six members of the band grew up and went to school in Brixton, and it's the music of the area as much as their beloved Bert Jansch and Bob Dylan albums that has seeped into what they do, which is "rootsy" in both the folk and reggae senses of the word."