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Mavis Staples
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow, moving, country-style cover by the legendary American soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist of the 1995 song by Sparklehorse written by Mark Linkous (who passed away in 2010), and the title track heralding Mavis’s upcoming album out on 7 November via ANTI Records
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Avalon Emerson - On It Goes
Song of the Day: The inventive American DJ and producer returns in the latest single of her Perpetual Emotion Machine project with bouncy, quirky dance track, a sped-up reworking of the gospel soul of Storm Queen number, out on Dead Oceans
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Self Esteem’s upcoming third album, A Complicated Woman
Song of the Day: Full vocal force with rich gospel-style harmonies and an affirmingly defiant message from the charismatic Rotherham singer-songwriter Rebecca Taylor, heralding her upcoming third LP as Self Esteem, A Complicated Woman, out on 25 April on Polydor Records
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Lady Blackbird
Song of the Day: The opening track of soaring, timeless, passionate gospel-infused soul music and more by the supreme American singer-songwriter, taken from her fabulous new five-track EP, Slang Spirituals, out now
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Barry Adamson
Song of the Day: A brilliant belter of a Motown-style soul single by the revered Manchester musician and songwriter, capturing the fatal final day of the great singer in 1964, taken from Adamson’s forthcoming new album Cut To Black
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Sinkane’s new album, We Belong
Song of the Day: This hugely uplifting title track from the forthcoming eighth album by the New York band led by multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, is fabulously stylish, Sly Stone-inspired, gospel funk and soul with an energy that really flies
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Black Pumas’ forthcoming album it titled Chronicles of a Diamond
Song of the Day: A superb new soul-gospel number featuring the soaring voice of singer Eric Burton with Austin, Texas bandmate guitarist-producer Adrian Quesada, taken from their forthcoming album Chronicles Of A Diamond
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Song of the Day: A stirring, profound, African- and gospel-influenced new number by the veteran distinctively soulful voiced American singer-songwriter from Philadelphia from his forthcoming new album The Ones Ahead out on 28 July on Transgressive Records
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Jessie Ware - Begin Again
Song of the Day: The British singer-songwriter’s luxuriant latest return comes in a wonderfully opulent and upbeat mix of disco, pop, funk, soul and gospel with brass, and heralds her forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled That! Feels Good!
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Durand Jones
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s great Offering from Gabriels, further fabulous retro and southern soul with Delta grit and uplifting spirituals, here by the Louisiana and Indiana singer, known also with band the Indications, and a single taken from the upcoming album, Wait Til I Get Over
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Gabriels majestic singer Jacob Lusk
Song of the Day: Another glorious, gorgeously stirring, defiant gift from the gospel trio of extraordinary singer Jacob Lusk, alongside Ryan Hope, and Ari Balouzian
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Mother/father influences: an image from the video for Nobody Knows by Loyle Carner
Song of the Day: A stirring, candid, heartfelt new single by the acclaimed British rapper about identify, the effects of parenthood in both directions, neglect, self-hatred, with powerful gospel sample backing by Pastor T.L. Barrett & the Youth For Christ Choir
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From the video for Lambchop’s Police Dog Blues
Song of the Day: Moving again away from his best known alt-country style, Kurt Wagner returns with an extraordinary experimental fusion of jazz, gospel and soul with this song that imagines a post-apocalyptic world where ex-police dogs roam
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Anna Calvi’s new single, from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack, is among other covers on a new EP
Song of the Day: Taken from the soundtrack to the final series of the Peaky Blinders TV drama, a powerful new cover version by the British singer and guitarist of the traditional gospel and blues number attributed to Claude Ely (1922–1978) from Virginia
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Seratones, fronted by AJ Haynes
Song of the Day: Taken from the forthcoming third album Love & Algorhythms, an upbeat, and truly uplifting positive fusion of pop, soul, funk and gospel by the soul-rock band from Shreveport, Louisiana. Out no New West Records
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Duval Timothy and Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: Slow, beautiful, rich, multi-layered vocal harmonies with a resonant gospel style and part of a 9-track EP recorded by the two singers between London and Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Gabriels’ new single Bloodline, with a painting of singer Jacob Lusk
Songs of the Day: Two sublime, powerful, moving, and beautiful numbers by the Los Angeles gospel, soul and jazz trio fronted by singer Jacob Lusk who has the emotive, melancholy qualities of Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, and here, with string and wind arrangements, captures a rich black history in every tone
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Spellling aka Chrystia Cabral
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s English Teacher, a band with an extra letter l, and a wonderful piece of late-Beatles-esque acoustic pop decorated with vocal harmonies, piano and other instruments in this title track by the artist Chrystia Cabral from Oakland, California, from her third album
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Curtis Harding
Song of the Day: Stirring brand new, but also old-school soul with beautiful brass and gospel-style backing group by the singer and songwriter from Michigan in his first new work for four years. Out on Anti Records
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Rebecca Taylor’s new Self Esteem track, I Do This All The Time
Song of the Day: Filled with killer lines and frankness, a darkly humorous, acerbic, self-derogatory instructional monologue of passion and irony about a relationship and more, with an added gospel chorus and orchestral backing by the Sheffield singer, heralding her second album as Self Esteem
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