"It’s sort of feel good, I’m a big fan of that rhythm when you have the reggae off-beat thing, but that kind of 140bpm, that is generally my favourite."

"Another book of poetry that taught me what the form was. Forché has a beautiful sense of rhythm. I teach her famous poem ""The Colonel"" in essay and nonfiction classes. It's all about what you don't say."

"This song that I'm going to play you is really interesting. To me it's the birth of funk guitar. This is a song called 'Go Where I Send Thee' and was recorded in 1937. The Golden Gate Quartet are an a capella group, so this is a capella, but listen to what happens with the rhythm. It's an amazing thing that four guys, no overdubs or anything like that, could make this amount of rhythm. For me they were one of the most important musical forces of the 20th century. The style of singing, which is called jubilee singing, was all originated in this one town in Virginia and there were lots and lots of groups in that town that could do this way of singing. Partly a way of harmonising but it's also a way of creating rhythm by making voices slightly hit off each other so they don't all land together. It's incredibly hard to do. You're pushing the beat by a 16th or 32nd to get that flam."