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Son House - in many ways the true daddy of the blues
Song of the Day: On the same day as we publish playlists of songs about authenticity, continuing in our blues thread, none can match that musical description more fully than the original or all origins who influenced all after him
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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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Racing Yello? Dieter Meier and Boris Blank
Song of the Day: After the perfect pace and beautiful simplicity of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, here's a contrast race forward from handcraft in Germany to flashy millionaire Switzerland, snorting that white line of road into an 80s concoction of speed-and-coke-crazy synth sampling
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Howling, growling, tenderly looming: Tom Waits is a moon poet
Song of the Day: On this day of this rare astronomical eclipse event, and after a series of other lunar-related songs, we come to an artist who has, across the course of his career, described this celestial body in around 100 different ways
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The unmistakable Grace Jones
Song of the Day: To mark the release of the revealing, insightful and at times hilarious documentary film, Bloodlight and Bami, directed by Sophie Fiennes, a couple of Grace's finest, with two sample live performances capture her ferocity, style, sexiness, humour, and above all, consummate skill as an artist
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Thomas Earl Petty, 1950-2017
Song of the Day: Many great songs are being suggested to mark Petty's passing, but this, from the 1985 from the album of the same name, is defiant and moving, highlighting the importance of being oneself, of being proud of your roots, appropriate for an artist who constantly fought for artistic freedom
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