Ona Watson - Take This Job And Shove It

Joe writes: I heard this on Cerys Matthew's excellent 6 Music show. She prefaced it by saying that a large proportion of people who quit their jobs do so in January. It's a 1978 cover of a song by David Allen Coe. It wasn't a hit and Ona doesn't appear to have recorded again, but he's still performing in Birmingham, Alabama. The track is hard to find but it has been compiled by the excellent Tony Rounce on the album Cold Cold Heart: Where Country Meets Soul volume 3, which is available here.

Bobby Charles - Small Town Talk

Joe writes: I'd never heard Small Town Talk until this year and now I've heard it twice, most recently chosen by Baxter Dury when he was a guest on my new favourite radio show - Cerys Matthews on 6 Music.

The whistle on the intro, the way the vocal is slightly behind the vocal, the horns, the laid back feel throughout... Sadly, they don't make them like this anymore.

You can hear that Baxter has taken some inspiration from Small Town Talk and he said his dad Ian was a big fan too.

Rick Danko from The Band wrote the song with Bobby, who appeared at The Band's Last Waltz concert.

Esbjörn Svensson Trio (EST) - Sipping On The Solid Ground (Live in Hamburg - 2007)

Joe writes: Cerys Matthews, formerly of Catatonia, presents the late Sunday morning slot on 6 Music. She has a lovely voice, a lovely manner, and she plays lots of music I've never heard of, some of it very good, including occasional jazz tracks which are nice to hear on 6 Music. Sipping On The Solid Ground was on this morning's show - perfect Sunday morning music with a really remarkable amount of space in the track.This was recorded live in 2007; Svensson died the following year in a scuba diving accident.