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Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
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Pete Shelley and that famous second gig on 20th July 1978
Song of the Day: A triple tribute to the sadly departed Pete Shelley, frontman of the foremost Manchester punk band, writer of the perfect, punchy, pithy, witty song, and that distinctive voice of unrequited love
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Ann Peebles - Memphis soul legend
Song of the Day: Another weather-related number for a wet Easter holiday Monday, here written by Peebles, her partner Don Bryant and Bernie Miller in 1973 when stepping out during a downpour in Memphis
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Ty Segall's new album, Freedom's Goblin
Song of the Day: It's time for an upbeat number for Friday, and so let's enjoy a great new cover version by the American garage rocker that stands up the original, but also resulting in a situation where everyone is indeed a winner
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Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet – musician, artist, visionary.
Song of the Day: With the recent passing of The Fall's Mark E Smith, and all the songs, tributes and stories that have followed, it now seems only appropriate to follow up with music Smith loved by one of his major influences
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From the cover of Renaissance's 1978 album A Song For All Seasons
Song of the Day: After yesterday's mention of northern lights in a Laura Gibson song, let's turn back the clock to 1978, and a beloved hit by the prog rock band with a symphonic, soaring chorus and cascading bass line
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