Thank you for the music Mose Allison, the singer-pianist/songwriter, hipster, and musical icon, who has died aged 89 multiple credible sources in the US affirm.

A huge inspiration to Georgie Fame, who covered ‘Parchman Farm’ and championed his work,  to Van Morrison, who paid roaring and simpático latter-year tribute over and over, to lovers of hip jazz and the blues, to people who like lyrics, people who enjoy self-effacing wisdom sprinkled with home truths, dry wit, arch pianism (naked chords, infectious vamps, jelly roll), a natty sense of style, anti-establishmentarianism as a life choice and much more, Allison provided all these requirements to the max. His mind was never on vacation, his mouth never working over time, words he himself coined freshly at the inspiration mint and framed in song to stand over in performance, audiences learning to recognise his sense of irony at their own cost.