This was the signature song of the Marshall Tucker Band, who burned brightly in the Southern Rock arena for most of the Seventies, albeit mostly in their native USA.

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Here’s a hit single from back in the early Seventies that I had completely forgotten about – an a cappella cover of Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush.

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Alice Coltrane channels the spirit of the blues in her approach to jazz piano on this grief filled instrumental composition from 1970.

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David Allan Coe was an asshole; about that there can be little disagreement. A self-mythologising braggart, he was never slow to trade on his troubled past, even if much of it was in his imagination.

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I have to confess I didn’t know the name Beverley Martyn until I read of her death at the age of 79. More fool me.

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Here’s another playlist for the transitional month of April, when wintry weather began to give way to longer days and occasional bursts of sunshine. There’s vintage reggae and soul, funk and swamp rock, old-skool hip-hop, new post-punk and country-rock, some unfamiliar versions of familiar tunes, and tributes to those we lost, including the last living Ronette.

The death of Nedra Talley Ross, the last living Ronette, brings an end to that golden era of Sixties girl groups. She was just 14 years old when she formed the group with her cousins Ronnie and Estelle back in 1957.

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I’ve been a big fan of M.I.A. ever since she made her debut with Galang back in 2024. Even though she’s as mad as a box of frogs.

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Tena Stelin is a UK singer who was a pioneer of the roots revival that began in reggae music at the end of the 1980s. This was his first release.

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Nathan Bartell never found fame and fortune and had become a church minister when his funky soul tune was rediscovered half a century later.

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