Johnny Cash recorded this song three times, most famously at Folsom Prison. But there were three previous versions back in the 1940s.

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This deep cut from David Bowie is rather marvellous: a Velvets cover with parping sax and Bowie playing a wailing blues harmonica.

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Here’s a classic from the early days of reggae, when the beats began to slow but you could still hear the influence of ska and rocksteady.

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George Porter Jr once considered becoming a Catholic priest. Thankfully for funk fans, he changed his mind and became bassist and singer of The Meters.

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John Paul Jones has played bass on many classic tunes with and without Led Zeppelin, but few of his contributions are more exceptional than The Lemon Song.

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Ron Carter is the epitome of class and elegance: a jazz icon best known as a member of Miles Davis’s second great quintet of the Sixties.

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Carol Kaye is walking, talking, string-plucking proof that playing bass guitar is not exclusively a man’s game.

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Jack Bruce was widely revered in the late Sixties and early Seventies for his work as one-third of the first supergroup, Cream.

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I had never heard of The Human Beinz but their fiery fusion of R&B and garage rock caught my eear when it was used in Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino.

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