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The forthcoming London Brew album
Song of the Day: A fabulous swirling concoction of jazz and psychedelia by a top-class group of London musicians reinterpreting Miles Davis’ album Bitches Brew and his ode to Jimi Hendrix (Miles Runs the Voodoo Down)
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The cover of Lee Moses’s classic 1971 album
Song of the Day: After the Four Tops, two superb and passionate songs about tricky relationships from a hugely under-rated artist who worked in the same circles, and made a classic 1971 album
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Jimi Hendrix, out-foxing all other guitarists in 1967, and ever since.
Song of the Day: More foxiness, with different association, and today we're getting unashamedly sexy on SOTD with a number that may not even be Jimi's greatest, but shows off every aspect of his incomparable panache and technique
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Desert to Delta: Songhoy Blues were formed in Bamako, Mali.
Song of the Day: A special double, from each of their first two albums, Music In Exile (2015) and Résistance (2017), by the brilliant guitar band from Timbuktu, who were forced to flee Mali after war and Sharia Law. Beloved by many including collaborator Iggy Pop, their superb African funk-blues fusion echoes Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys, John Lee Hooker and Jimi Hendrix
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A youthful Van Morrison and Them in the mid-60s
Song of the Day: A triple Sunday treat from the early days of Van Morrison and his fellow Belfast boys, showing his raw, powerful voice, anger, lust, and in the final song, the tenderness yet to come
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The Temptations
Song of the Day: Written by two of Motown's greatest songwriters in 1970 in the shadow of Nixon and the Vietnam War, it remains equally relevant during today's troubling political and social uncertainty
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