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Labi Siffre
Song of the Day: After Véronique Sanson, more mid-70s soul-funk full-orchestral music, this time from the influential British artist sampled by Eminem, and two classic songs fully using fat bass and rhythmic violin and brass sections
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Lead Belly
Song of the Day: Also known as In The Pines, and Black Girl, today we move onto another traditional song variously interpreted, dark and brooding, haunting in its melody, and simmering with suspicion and jealousy
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That's the Fela
Song of the Day: As the heatwave continues let's enjoy a double from Nigeria's prolific genius, one about our most precious resource, the other in relation to a police confrontation involving a planted cannabis joint
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Roxy Music, 1975 vintage.
Song of the Day: Continuing, in between an celebrity death, our mini-theme of 'love is' songs, a hot-to-trot stomper from Bryan Ferry and co from the band's fifth album Sirens in 1975
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Singer, songwriter, banjo player and quite possibly engineer too – Peggy Seeger
Song of the Day: A special song for International Women's Day, sung by a very special woman, with brilliant lyrics all about fighting against the conditioning, prejudice and stereotyping of gender and inequality
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Patti Smith, 1975
Song of the Day: "Three-chord rock merged with the power of the word" is how the Chicago-born New York singer and poet described the 1975 debut album that galloped on the music scene with such impact, combining poetry with early punk and krautrock
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