First recommends: Said the Gramophone is a daily MP3 blog, offering the kind of whimsical songs which should cheer you up before each crap day at work.

The real beauty of Gramophone are the surprising choices.

There’s no adherence to genre, so on the day we checked it, the front page had the Kasai Allstars from Congo, Jamaica’s own The Slickers and one from the great Al Green we hadn’t heard before.

Read, listen and enjoy HERE