I will be honest with you - I was listening to my favourite radio show last week (Radcliffe & Maconie on BBC 6 Music , for the record), and it was one of their features that sparked the theme for this playlist. On their regular Sunday Tea Time Theme Time section, someone had suggested songs with links to districts of New York City. I could do that, I thought - and so, instead of the three included on that show, I have for you a playlist of more than 10! Everyone a district o

Last week the world lost one of its most celebrated and important musicians, when Steve Cropper died aged 84 on 3 December. The 1960s was the era of the session band; the US was stacked full of them, pretty much every major label had them - there was the Muscle Shoals crew, the Memphis Horns, the Wrecking Crew and of course, Booker T. and The MG's at Stax. Photo: Don Paulsen / Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images Cropper was a core member of that last lot, through much of the