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Aldous Harding
Song of the Day: Another sublime voice, and here two songs from the New Zealander, whose voice coils out in a still, acoustic guitar and piano, and reveals raw, intimate emotions awash with melancholic black humour
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Into the woods … from the cover of Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther
Song of the Day: To kick off the new year proper, two beautifully wintry and otherworldly album openers from the Texan folk rock band, both of which take a broad, historic perspective
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Pete Seeger
Song of the Day: A Boxing Day special - less about putting your gifts into boxes, but the boxes people put themselves into, with a satirical song performed by Seeger, but originally written by the folk singer Malvina Reynolds in 1962
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Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold
Song of the Day: Moving into new fox territory, let's enjoy two powerful and emotionally charged tracks spanning the career so far of the Seattle indie folk band that exemplify their distinctive vocal harmony style
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Deer Tick
Song of the Day: Following on from our hooves, animal, and body parts band theme, we turn to two very contrasting tracks, from the versatile Rhode Island band who have variously been described as anything between alt-country and punk
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The Mountain Goats, fronted by John Darnielle
Song of the Day: With 16 studio albums since 1994, so many interesting, varied and clever songs to choose from the California indie-folk band fronted by John Darnielle, but how about this goth parody from 2017?
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Kevin Morby and co from the video to I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
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Clem Snide, from the cover of their 199 album, Your Favorite Music
Song of the Day: Among the Boston alt-country band's greatest songs, taken from their mischievously titled second album of 1999, Your Favorite Music, and written by singer Eef Barzelay, it trips along with a sensitive, wistful, lazily-paced beauty
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Rabbits look on during Pearl's song in Night of the Hunter (1955)
Song of the Day: Another musical echo of eery beauty from yesterday's Nature Boy, an extraordinary song with a strange, soaring melody, in a equally otherworldly scene in a brilliant film directed by Charles Laughton
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alj-j cover for 3WW
Song of the Day: alt-J’s third album is full of oddities and wonders, but today’s pick is the album’s opener, the sort of fusion of disparate elements that we love at the Song Bar, mixing PlayStation imagery with Shakespeare and folk
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Trees in 1970.
Song of the Day: Exquisite garden-themed eponymous track from the first of only two albums made in 1970 by the English folk band that immediately split up before reforming until 1973
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Molly Drake (centre, shown here with Rachel and Betty Unthank)
Song of the Day: Could there be a more beautiful song about songs than this, written by Molly Drake (1915-1993), the poet, musician and mother of Nick Drake? It is sung here by the Northumbrian folk band fronted by Rachel and Betty Unthank
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Bedouine aka Azniv Korkejian
Song of the Day: A singer-songwriter of wonderful warmth, intelligence and voice, a song from the Syria-born artist's eponymous first album from this year
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Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas. 'His face told a story'.
Song of the Day: A tribute to the actor who has died aged 91, whose style possessed a deep mystery, and had a gentle singing voice that evoked great pathos, doing a Willie Nelson song in a documentary about his life, Partly Fiction (2012), and more from his career
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