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Scott Walker, 1943-2019
Song of the Day: A short musical tribute to the great and now sadly late American-born British singer and composer with that extraordinary baritone voice, from his Walker Brothers pop era to a solo career of great influence, innovation and experiment
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Lead Belly
Song of the Day: Also known as In The Pines, and Black Girl, today we move onto another traditional song variously interpreted, dark and brooding, haunting in its melody, and simmering with suspicion and jealousy
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Sona Jarbarteh
Song of the Day: Moving from Ivory Coast and Mali to The Gambia, and the singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer who hails from a long line of Griot kora players with a song to mark her country's 50th independence anniversary in 2015
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Going Forth: From the cover of Kathryn Joseph's album Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I've Spilled
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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Pub mates and song collaborators Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Malcolm Middleton songs, let's dip into two by his old Arab Strap friend Aidan Moffat, here joining with Bill Wells, fellow songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with two dark and humorous numbers
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Stephen Hawking 1942-2018. Cosmologist, theoretical physicist, humourist
Song of the Day: How best to pay tribute to one of the most intelligent men in history, one mentioned in the same breath as Einstein? With a silly cosmic song of course, taken from the Meaning of Life
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Aretha Franklin, of course
Song of the Day: Continuing our woman-man perspective mini-theme, a sublime moment from among the greatest of all voices with a song to stir anyone's emotions
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Multi-dimensional life: from Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Multi-Love video
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Unknown by Clem Snide to the title track to the third 2015 album by New Zealand-US band started and fronted by Ruban Nielson. Multi-layered and uncategorisable, this prog-rock, pop and psychedelia work concerns a tricky love triangle which turns into a polyamorous situation
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The Cesarians …
Song of the Day: Glorious, theatrical pop from the north London group fronted by singer Charlie Finke and keyboard player Justine Armatage
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Sleater-Kinney's forever animated Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, rendered literally this way for the video of A New Wave
Song of the Day: One of the newest songs from the band formed in 1994 by the Washington pair of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, named after a street in they home town of Lacey, this typically quick-witted indie number, harking back to teenage angst, is taken from their 2015 album No Cities To Love in the Sub Pop label
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Courtney Barnett … mischievous.
Song of the Day: We recently highlighted Barnett's new album with Kurt Vile, but here let's enjoy a couple of tracks from Taken from the witty 2015 album Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, out on Milk! Records
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Desert to Delta: Songhoy Blues were formed in Bamako, Mali.
Song of the Day: A special double, from each of their first two albums, Music In Exile (2015) and Résistance (2017), by the brilliant guitar band from Timbuktu, who were forced to flee Mali after war and Sharia Law. Beloved by many including collaborator Iggy Pop, their superb African funk-blues fusion echoes Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys, John Lee Hooker and Jimi Hendrix
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