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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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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: The past week has featured a selection of wonderful Scottish artists, several of whom admire and have been influenced by this American singer-songwriter whose voice and simplicity of style has power and profundity
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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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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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Nicole Atkins
Song of the Day: Two beautiful songs for a Sunday from a new album, Goodnight Rhonda Lee, by the New Jersey-born singer who possesses one of the most tender, powerful and soulful voices around today
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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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