Marilyn McLeod is best known, if she is known at all, as the songwriter behind hit singles for Diana Ross and Junior Walker.

(more…)

Jackie Mittoo was the organ playing child prodigy of Jamaican music who churned out countless hits at Studio One for Coxsone Dodd in the Sixties.

(more…)

Hot Chocolate’s only No.1 sums up my joyful feelings this morning after the league title returned to North London for the first time in 22 years.

(more…)

Gwen McCrae is best known as the Queen of Rare Groove for her much-sampled repertoire of funk and soul. And her accidental role in launching disco.

(more…)

The Allman Brothers hit their instrumental peak with In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, recorded for their 1971 album Live At Fillmore East.

(more…)

Free were in the vanguard of the blues-rock revolution that chnged the face of British music in the late 1960s.

(more…)

15-16-17 were, as the name suggests, three teenage girls from Jamaica who made their name singing lovers rock in late-1970s London.

(more…)

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.

(more…)

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.

(more…)

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

(more…)