Song of the Day: From yesterday's Ye Nuns, a gem from the Yorkshire chansonnier from his about a nun who wasn't really one, filled with playful, suggestive images and written in a mock-innocent style
Read moreYe Nuns – I Don't Want To Do This Again
Song of the Day: After yesterday's songs about the beatified Joan of Arc, another Catholic and military connection, but with a twist – a cover band performing a new song written specially for them by a member of the band they cover
Read moreHenry Burr / Leonard Cohen / OMD / Arcade Fire – Songs about Joan of Arc
Song of the Day: After recent songs about the famous who died at a prematurely young age, four very contrasting numbers about the legendary French military heroine who was burned at the stake age 19 in 1431
Read moreSuede – Heroine / Daddy's Speeding
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Auteurs track mixing the premature deaths of Lenny Bruce and Rudolph Valentino, two more from the 90s Britpop pioneers about two more stars who died young – Marilyn Monroe and James Dean
Read moreThe Auteurs – Lenny Valentino
Song of the Day: After yesterday's track by Black Box Recorder, let's turn to a track by member Luke Haines, whose prolific output includes a wide variety of indie, new wave, and wistfully comedic songs
Read moreBlack Box Recorder – The English Motorway System
Song of the Day: After James Carr's Dark Street and Van Morrison's Bright Road, let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life
Read moreVan Morrison – Bright Side Of The Road
Song of the Day: After James Carr's soul classic, let's turn down down an unusually upbeat route written by by the Belfast legend for his 1979 album Into The Music, which includes a lyric inspired by it
Read moreJames Carr – The Dark End Of The Street
Song of the Day: Following Nick Cave's Jubilee Street, let's continue down the magnificent but murky musical road with this 1967 soul classic by the Mississippi-born singer from album You Got My Mind Messed Up
Read moreNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jubilee Street
Song of the Day: Following songs about drug-dealer and a relationship by Rodriguez, let's move onto prostitution, guilt, death and redemption by the sublime Australian from 2013's Push The Sky Away
Read moreRodriguez – Sugar Man / To Whom It May Concern
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Vashti Bunyan, another inspirational story of obscurity to long-sought recognition fro the mysterious Detroit-born Mexican immigrant singer-songwriter, made famous in the documentary Searching For Sugar Man
Read moreVashti Bunyan - Diamond Day / If I Were / Same But Different
Song of the Day: Today's offering glides gently and delicately into Sunday by the English folk singer-songwriter, first from her rare 1970 album and then her next, 35 years later - in which she almost continues exactly where she left off
Read moreLUMP (Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay) – Curse of the Contemporary
Song of the Day: Yesterday we highlighted two of Joni MItchell's finest from, and with a California connection, here an English singer-songwriter with a voice that soars with comparable quality, alongside beautiful, otherworldly music from the Tunng frontman and producer
Read moreJoni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi / California
Song of the Day: After two previous colourful entries, let's enter the vividly depicted world of the Canadian singer-songwriter, here taking us from Los Angeles to Paris and back on a journey of street and field scenes that capture big issues old and new.
Read moreDolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors
Song of the Day: After a colour-themed pair by Mattiel from Atlanta, let's enjoy twin versions from the Tennessee great, who also likes a shade of country and colour, in this tale of patchwork poverty, mother's love, and childhood pride
Read moreMattiel – Count Your Blessings / Whites Of Their Eyes
Song of the Day: Today's entry comes from the the singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, who is a designer by day and a performer by night, and here her rock-pop-soul songs reflect this, making multiple reference to colours
Read moreTrembling Bells – I'm Coming / Christ's Entry Into Govan
Song of the Day: Following our previous track by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, new songs from the Scottish-formed folk band who collaborated with him on the 2012 album The Marble Downs, but two here from their new LP Dungeness
Read moreBonnie 'Prince' Billy – I See A Darkness
Song of the Day: Nobody quite does upbeat or downbeat depressing like the Louisville singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, who has also gone under the Palace or Palace Brothers moniker, so let's do both with two versions of this song
Read moreSilver Jews – Random Rules / Smith & Jones Forever
Song of the Day: Moving from yesterday's Smog/Bill Callahan songs, today let's sample another brilliant lyricist who specialises in dark and droll delivery, taken from the lo-fi 1998 album American Water
Read moreSmog / Bill Callahan – Cold Bloodied Old Times / Jim Cain
Song of the Day: The past week has featured a selection of wonderful Scottish artists, several of whom admire and have been influenced by this American singer-songwriter whose voice and simplicity of style has power and profundity
Read moreKathryn Joseph – The Bird
Song of the Day: Following our previous entry featuring King Creosote and Jon Hopkins, let's turn to another Scottish artist, and fly from bats to birds into an otherworldly sound by the Inverness singer-songwriter
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