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Moor Mother and Billy Woods: The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot
Song of the Day: Dark, soulful vocals, field recordings, great hip-hop and trip-hop, jazz and a brilliant title, this powerful and profound racial history number by the American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, comes from the 2020 album BRASS, with additional instrumentation by Sons of Kemet
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From the cover art of Bright Eyes’ new album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Song of the Day: Delving deep into natural disasters, mass surveillance and the extreme relief of humanity’s tiny place in a much bigger planetary history, this single comes from the first new Bright Eyes album for a decade, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
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Who is 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
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Randy Newman
Song of the Day: From Newman's new album Dark Matter, and typically filled with irony, pathos, humour and tragedy, the perspective of bluesman who died whose identity was then taken on by someone else
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Lili La Scala
Song of the Day: Continuing a current thread of songs about the deadly seas, this exquisite song tells the tragic tale of a ship captain's daughter in a storm, based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Elvis Costello
Song of the Day: Sharp as a knife, right on the money, and a miracle of condensed ideas, this snappy number from 1982 continues our ironic min-theme punches together history's errors and a relationship
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PJ Harvey performing from Let England Shake
Song of the Day: From Nick Cave's bloody rose of murder, deep connections come with PJ Harvey and her witheringly beautiful song about war, history and so-called past British glory from her album Let England Shake
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