Stories behind songs and pieces of music from a wide range of styles and periods.

1913 Massacre, by Woody Guthrie

A Fool No More, by Peter Green

Aja, by Steely Dan

Al Bowlly’s in Heaven, by Richard Thompson

Alabama, by John Coltrane

Alone Again Or, by Love

And When I Die, by Blood, Sweat and Tears

Anyone Who Had A Heart, by Dionne Warwick

Aoife, by Flairck

Au Lait, by the Pat Metheny Group

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, by Ella Fitzgerald

Black Hair, by Nick Cave

Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, by Nina Simone

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, performed by the Carpenters

Cinema Show (Live), by Genesis

Coyote, by Joni Mitchell

Django, by the Modern Jazz Quartet

Eleanor Rigby, by The Beatles

Elgar’s Cello Concerto, by Jacqueline du Pré

Etudes 1 and 2, by Charlie Haden, Geri Allen and Paul Motian

Fables of Faubus, by Charles Mingus

Forgetting, by Philip Glass

Georgia Street, by Appaloosa

Ghost Town, by The Specials

Gloria’s Step, by the Bill Evans Trio

God Bless the Child, by the Keith Jarrett Trio

Hard Times, by Baby Huey and the Babysitters

Here Comes The Flood, by Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel

Hurdy Gurdy Man, by Steve Hillage

I’d Rather Go Blind, by Chicken Shack

It Never Entered My Mind, by The Miles Davis Quintet

John Barleycorn, by Traffic

La Rêveuse, by Marin Marais

La Sorcière, by Virginie Morgan

La Strada, by Nino Rota

Listening Wind, by Talking Heads

Lonely Woman, by Ornette Coleman

Losing Hand, by Ray Charles

Lotus Feet, by Remember Shakti

Love Child, by The Supremes

Magic Hollow, by the Beau Brummels

Maurizius, by Eberhard Weber

Moonage Daydream, by David Bowie

Palenque, by the Paco de Lucia Sextet

Persian Love, by Holger Czukay

Que Faser, by Codona

Season of the Witch, from Super Session

Sebastian, by Cockney Rebel

She Was Young, by Steve Swallow

Shipbuilding, by Elvis Costello

Some Velvet Morning, by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra

Sound Chaser, by Yes

Strange Weather, by Marianne Faithfull

Take a Pebble, by Emerson, Lake and Palmer

The Blacksmith, by Steeleye Span

The Heart Asks Pleasure First, by Michael Nyman

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by The Band

The Rain, The Park & Other Things, by The Cowsills

The Stolen Child, by The Waterboys

The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid, by the Decemberists

Three Views of a Secret, by Jaco Pastorius

Turkish Mambo, by Lennie Tristano

Watermelon in Easter Hay, by Frank Zappa

Waterwheel, by Oregon

What’s New, by Helen Merrill

When I Go, by Minimal Compact

Where The Moon Goes, by Weather Report