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Dr John, the Night Tripper, aka Mac Rebennack, 1941-2019
Song of the Day: A song-based tribute to the sadly departed New Orleans great, aka Mac Rebennack, the rich-voiced, voodoo-style Mardi Gras feather-wearing pianist, guitarist and singer who spanned genres with colour and charisma
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The Staple Singers - fronted by Mavis
Song of the Day: On the day Donald Trump calls an attention-seeking national emergency to get funding for his controversial wall project, a song from 1973 by the great soul and gospel family with a message that’s loud and clear
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Pink Floyd in 1973, the year of Dark Side Of The Moon
Song of the Day: Following our previous song The Old Brain, a Floyd-influenced work by Once & Future Band, let’s enjoy that older, but still fresh sounding brain song and final work from that 1973 masterpiece, Dark Side of the Moon
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Sybille Baier
Song of the Day: In a stylistic continuity with yesterday's Judy Collins / Leonard Cohen tracks, a short, beautiful and fragile parting piece by the German singer who recorded this in the early 1970s but wasn't released for 35 years
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Ann Peebles - Memphis soul legend
Song of the Day: Another weather-related number for a wet Easter holiday Monday, here written by Peebles, her partner Don Bryant and Bernie Miller in 1973 when stepping out during a downpour in Memphis
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Howling, growling, tenderly looming: Tom Waits is a moon poet
Song of the Day: On this day of this rare astronomical eclipse event, and after a series of other lunar-related songs, we come to an artist who has, across the course of his career, described this celestial body in around 100 different ways
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Peter Gabriel, aged 23, in the early days of Genesis.
Song of the Day: Moonlight, eccentricity and experimental obscurity have very much been the direction of SOTD recently, and so it's time to unashamedly progressively rock on to Peter Gabriel's old band at their finest – when he still led it
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Over the moon and far away: Can in 1973 and their cover for the album Soon Over Babaluma
Song of the Day: Continuing the lunar theme, and extending to the outer limits of experimentalism after Moondog and Captain Beefheart, the sequence also ties in with the German band also highly influential on the late Mark E Smith
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Bob Marley & The Wailers in their early heyday
Song of the Day: Yesterday's Sly and the Family Stone were also famous for their track Stand, so by connection, from the same era, a masterpiece by the king of reggae with an equally powerful political message.
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The ever stylish Sly and co, who together made a very special musical family
Song of the Day: Following yesterday's We The People by A Tribe Called Quest, an earlier, and even more influential message of racial unity from the funk pioneers of the late 60s and early 70s
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