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Conershop’s new album for 2020, England Is A Garden
Song of the Day: Characteristically catchy with a simple, repetitive riff and melody, it’s familiar but also new, a bluesy, fuzzy 70s rock sound wrapped in something different. This can only be Cornershop and they do it so brilliantly
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The Spencer Davis Group, featuring Stevie Winwood
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Helen Reddy track, let's compare that brave feminist anthem to a similar-era powerful man cry, performed here with Hammond-heavy brilliance by Stevie Winwood and co from 1967
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Brothers Angus and Malcolm (right) AC/DC's founders, practising in their younger days
Song of the Day: A tribute to the late Malcolm Young, the steadily brilliant rhythm guitarist and co-founding member of the Scottish/Australian rock band, who recently passed away after several years of health problems
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Kevin Morby and co from the video to I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
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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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Little Barrie, featuring Virgil Howe, left, on drums
Song of the Day: A tribute after the shock passing of the extremely likeable and vivacious drummer Virgil Howe, son of Steve Howe from Yes. His band is best known for the theme tune to the TV series Better Call Saul, but let's hear some examples of Virgil's skills and also the surf-style psychedelia rock of this great band – from their 2011 album King of the Waves
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Royal Blood
Song of the Day: Another highlight of Glastonbury 2017, the duo from Brighton achieve a massive and innovative sound with, for example, this first single from their new album How Did We Get So Dark?
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Prince reigning purple in 2007
Songs of the Day: A special tribute selection of four songs to mark exactly a year since the Purple One suddenly passed away – variously sad, political, funky, and triumphantly emotional
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Al Stewart in the 70s
Song of the Day: Turning the dial from yesterday's Joni Mitchell, we listen in to a classic from the Glasgow-born songwriter, who finds someone tuning into his mind like song heard on the road
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My Morning Jacket, fronted by Jim James
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Muppet Show theme, there's a deep connection to this beautiful Kentucky band song: originally written for the Muppet movie, but instead came round on the 2011 album Circuitous
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Jane's Addiction
Song of the Day: Leaving yesterday's gentle song we take a different departure, with the LA punk-funk-rock-metal band's number about a family row over a mixed-race relationship
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Strangeness and charm: Hawkwind
Song of the Day: Science meets pop with one of the space rock band's catchiest creations with a three-chord krautrock feel, here quirkily preformed in 1977 and presented by Marc Bolan
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