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Sylvie’s forthcoming album, out in October, but currently available to pre-order and partly download
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, slow track of mid-70s Laurel Canyon-style songwriting by South Carolina’s Ben Schwab, here featuring the vocals of Sam Burton from a forthcoming self-titled album, and inspired by the discovery by Schwab of a box of 1975 tape recordings by his father John’s band, Mad Anthony
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Color Green’s new single covers the full spectrum
Song of the Day: Bluesy, slightly Rolling Stones-y, but above all a timelessly classy though new piece of Americana meets New Orleans-style soul that builds with a soaring voice, by the California pair of Noah Kohll and Corey Madden
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Nina Nastasia
Song of the Day: A lazy Sunday song? There’s so more going on here in this new single from American folk singer-songwriter, taken from her forthcoming seventh album, Riderless Horse, and first for 12 years since 2010’s Outlaster
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Kevin Morby’s forthcoming album This Is A Photograph
Song of the Day: This melodically strong and moving new number by the American singer-songwriter is the title track of his forthcoming album and vividly captures time passing and other pressures of family life through the prism of an old camera image
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The cover of Kurt Vile’s forthcoming album
Song of the Day: Woozily mesmeric, existential new track by the laid-back Philadelphia singer-songwriter taking us on a deadpan cranial journey inside his hallucinatory thoughts with images of “pinball machine-a-mania” and his characteristic, charming, languid drawl
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Coco’s debut album
Song of the Day: A beautiful, serene, dreamlike number with a gorgeous bassline and vocal harmonies, the final track from the self-titled debut album by the NY/LA trio of Maia Friedman (from Dirty Projectors and Uni Ika Ai), Dan Molad (Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo, Dustrider)
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Song of the Day: Sublimely written and powerfully delivered with a strong, full-range emotive voice, guitar and orchestration, this latest song by the singer-songwriter from Oklahoma is about keeping a grip on oneself through hard times
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Sam Evian’s forthcoming album Time To Melt
Song of the Day: The crisp, laid back, stylish, gentle funk of this single by the Brooklyn artist comes in a clever contrast to the seriousness of subject – a divided America facing a Capitol skirmish scandal and difficult schisms to deal with and heal
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Song of the Day: This remarkable number from Bob’s 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways plays with the idea of the many ways to perceive and be perceived, parodying his various personas with the Frankenstein metaphor
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David Berman of Silver Jews, 1967-2019
Song of the Day: In tribute, two songs, that could be any number from the pen of the tragically departed David Berman, singer of Silver Jews and more recently Purple Mountains, one of the greatest lyricists of the past 30 years
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From the cover of King of America (1986)
Song of the Day: A slow sizzling, smouldering heartbreak love song for 5th November, but hinting at explosive emotions from Costello’s breakaway 1986 country album, King of America
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A scene from the New York section of Night On Earth (1991)
Song of the Day: From Bernard Herrmann’s music from Taxi Driver, let’s catch a ride with another cab film, Jim Jarmusch’s 1991 five-vignettes plot, connected by a soundtrack by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
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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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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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Roy Orbison, a voice of majestic tragedy
Song of the Day: After Santo & Johnny's exquisite, dreamy melody, a song from the man Elvis Presley described has being the world's greatest singer, her with lovesickness that filters into the subconscious
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - aka Will Oldham
Song of the Day: Nobody quite does upbeat or downbeat depressing like the Louisville singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, who has also gone under the Palace or Palace Brothers moniker, so let's do both with two versions of this song
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David Berman from Silver Jews
Song of the Day: Moving from yesterday's Smog/Bill Callahan songs, today let's sample another brilliant lyricist who specialises in dark and droll delivery, taken from the lo-fi 1998 album American Water
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