Lone Justice tackled The Undertones’ greatest song Teenage Kicks when they kicked off the LA cowpunk scene and paved the way for alt-country.

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Once upon a time, 15 years before Underworld became dance legends and Born Slippy became the biggest song of the rave era, they were a very different band.

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The best thing about Television Personalities – the DIY punk band, not the narcissists on your telly – is their titles incorporating famous figures. And this song.

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Erik Satie is arguably the godfather of modern minimalism and ambient music. Especially with his early composition Trois Gymnopédies.

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Acoustic bluesman Eric Bibb found fame in his mid-forties and is still making remarkable music on his steel-strong guitar at the age of 73.

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Moving on from yesterday’s Ray Charles post, but not completely… in the early ’50s he went down to New Orleans to work with Guitar Slim, and this was the result.

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Ray Charles is rightly credited with almost single-handedly inventing soul and R&B in the early 1950s. But in the 1960s he surprised his fans, and the whole of the pop world, by turning his hand to country-and-western.

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When this song came on in the latest series of Industry I thought it might be by Tindersticks. But it’s not: it’s the debut single of Canadian duo TR/ST.

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David Gilmour plays guest guitar on this magnificent version of his own song Comfortably Numb by Ice-T’s thrash metal band Body Count.

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Joaquin Phoenix’s sad version of this song was one of the many delightful surprises I discovered when I watched Joker: Folie A Deux in an otherwise empty cinema last night.

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