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The Rhythm And The Blues

Guy Garvey's featured artist this week is Nina Simone - glorious. Sir Tom Jones appears twice as Guy celebrates Sir Tom's birthday. Plus the Poet Laureate chooses a song for Guy.

Guy Garvey's featured artist this week is Nina Simone - glorious. Sir Tom Jones appears twice as Guy celebrates Sir Tom's birthday. Plus the Poet Laureate chooses a song for Guy.

Beckapedia also has a double appearance in the show with a couple of stunning tracks - tune in to find out what they are.

Archive clip topics featured include amongst others, the prohibition and John Craven's Newsround.

Guy's brother Marcus also pops up again this week - the little tinker.

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Mon 8 Jun 202000:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    House Burning Down

  • Kate Bush

    Running Up That Hill

  • The The

    This is the day

  • Youth Sector

    No Fanfare

  • The Isley Brothers

    Fight The Power

    • Forever Gold.
    • T-Neck.

  • The Isley Brothers

    Harvest For The World

  • Violent Femmes

    Blister In The Sun

  • The Amazing

    Rewind

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

  • Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

    Rattlesnakes

  • Coco

    One Time Villain

    • FCA Records.

  • Little Joy

    Brand New Start

  • Nina Simone

    Good Bait

  • Fleet Foxes

    Kept Woman

  • The Ramsey Lewis Trio

    Hang On Sloopy

  • Eddie Vedder

    The Long Road (feat. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)

  • The Supremes

    You Can't Hurry Love

  • Janet Baker, John Barbirolli & London Symphony Orchestra

    Where Corals Lie (Elgar)

  • Tom Jones

    Motherless Child (feat. Portishead)

  • Public Enemy

    By the Time I Get to Arizona

  • Day Wave

    Crush

  • Orlando Weeks

    Milk Breath

  • Nina Simone

    Four Women (Live)

  • Agnes Obel

    Riverside

  • Stevie Wonder

    Fingertips

  • Massive Attack

    Unfinished Sympathy

  • Toumani Diabaté

    Tapha Niang

  • The Verve

    So It Goes

    • HUT RECORDINGS.

  • Yeti Lane

    Analog Wheel

  • Everything Everything

    Arch Enemy

  • Irma Thomas

    Ruler Of My heart

  • Perfume Genius

    Fool

  • Sébastien Tellier

    La Ritournelle

  • Nina Simone

    Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

  • The Staple Singers

    I'll Take You There

  • Bill Withers

    Grandma's Hands (Live at Carnegie Hall)

  • Billie Holiday

    Strange Fruit

    • Back To Black CD1: Blues, Jazz, Swing And The Big Bands 1900-1945.
    • Weton Wesgram.
    • 18.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Jun 202015:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Mon 8 Jun 202000:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music