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New Year’s fireworks? The recent collaborative Angel Olsen album featuring this Camp Saint Helene song
Song of the Day: A profound, philosophical and ethereally beautiful final SOTD for 2024, by the band from the Catskill Mountains, New York, taken from Angel Olsen's recent collaborative album, Cosmic Waves Volume 1, out on Somethingscosmic and Jagjaguwar
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Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Reminiscent of Nick Drake and hauntingly beautiful, this new acoustic single from with guitar, organ, flute and more, comes from the forthcoming self-titled album by the London singer-songwriter and pedal steelist now located in Nashville
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The ever sharp and prolific Jeffrey Lewis
Song of the Day: Who better, and who indeed has written such a nailed-on brilliant song about coronavirus lockdown than the super-sharp lyricist, prolific songwriter and comic book artist from New York’s Lower East Village?
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Cover of Marry Waterson & Emily Barker’s 2019 album, A Window To Other Ways
Song of the Day: A quirky, beautiful reminder that endless scrolling is secondary to real love, in the form of folky, analogue, acoustic duet between from a member of the Waterson-Knight-Carthy clan and the the Australian singer
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The Animals may have done the best-known cover version, but there are arguably others than better it
To some it’s a masterpiece, to others a dirge, but from 17th century England to 20th century New Orleans, with artists that include Woody Guthrie, Nina Simone, The Animals and alt-J it’s a song that keeps evolving
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singing and guitar-playing superstar, in action at Chorlton station in 1964
Song of the Day: After the great Mahalia Jackson, another superstar who could not only sing, but whose guitar playing was a major influence on Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, and therefore everybody since them
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Sybille Baier
Song of the Day: In a stylistic continuity with yesterday's Judy Collins / Leonard Cohen tracks, a short, beautiful and fragile parting piece by the German singer who recorded this in the early 1970s but wasn't released for 35 years
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Judy Collins with Leonard Cohen
Song of the Day: After a couple of nun-related songs, let's turn two ethereal songs written by Leonard Cohen, but performed by the singer better known for covering Stephen Sondheim's Send In The Clowns
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Jake Thackray
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
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Van the man
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
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Sixto Rodriquez in the early 70s
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
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Vashti Bunyan, 1970
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
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Joni Mitchell in the early 1970s
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.
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The album cover of Diamond Mine (2011)
Song of the Day: Continuing with more Scottish-flavour collaborations, more exquisite songs, here by Fife's Kenny Anderson joining forces with the English electronica musician and producer from the 2011 album Diamond Mine
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Singer, songwriter, banjo player and quite possibly engineer too – Peggy Seeger
Song of the Day: A special song for International Women's Day, sung by a very special woman, with brilliant lyrics all about fighting against the conditioning, prejudice and stereotyping of gender and inequality
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Laura Gibson
Song of the Day: Continuing from our last entry, by Aldous Harding, another vocalist with a special form of melancholy, with work from the American artist's fourth solo album, Empire Builder, 2016
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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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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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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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