Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 2
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Weight: Mavis Staples & Levon Helm If the 1978 live album The Last Waltz featured the...
Thanks for stumbling upon my retirement project and labour of love, Here Comes The Song. Here you'll find the latest blogs from music fanatics about their favourite songs and the artists who wrote them. It really is about the music that moves us...
Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 1
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK She Sang Songs: Track Dogs Acoustic roots band Track Dogs have named She Sang Songs as one of their...
Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 5
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK 4th Day Prayer: Allison Russell Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, has made such an...
My Top 20 songs of 2021
Phil Shaw 1 Bloomsday – Samantha Crain Anthem to hope and a glistening beauty from the Choctaw songwriter, taking its title from James...
Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 4
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Bright Star: Anaïs Mitchell Bright Star sounds as if it might be a Christmas single but the Anaïs...
Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 3
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Nameless: Jacob and Drinkwater Alt-folk duo Tobias ben Jacob and Lukas Drinkwater have captured...
Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 2
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Soho: vulpes (Maz O’Connor) Inhabiting the alter ego of vulpes, London-based songwriter Maz...
Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 1
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Deserving: John Smith John Smith’s new album The Fray has arrived like vaccine for the soul. The...
A ride called nostalgia: My 20 favourite fairground songs
Phil Shaw The funfair, as distinct from the carnival and circus, has provided a rich seam of material for songwriters. Surprisingly, a...
My Songs of the Year: From Gabriels to Dylan and The Avalanches
Phil Shaw 1: Love And Hate In A Different Time – Gabriels An extraordinary song for momentous times from the Los Angeles trio. Yes, there...
Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 3
When Rosanne Cash sings ‘Deliver me from tweets and lies’, there can be only one person she has in mind. But her timely new track, Crawl…
Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 2
Rhiannon Giddens always sings passionately about racial and social injustice, from slavery to civil rights. Now she takes on the gaslighters
From Aretha to Nina via The Czars: My top 50 greatest cover versions
Cover versions can be divisive, among bands as well as fans; I recall Graham Nash fleeing The Hollies over their decision to record an LP of
Boss class: My fifty favourite songs by Bruce Springsteen
Inspired by a recent Guardian piece by Alexis Petridis, listing the best 50 Bob Dylan songs, here is my (very subjective) top half-century…
Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 1
In My Room: a perfect title to describe the humble songwriter’s location of necessity during the global shutdown. From their rooms they've…
Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport
A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…
Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 2
We all need a harmonious new year after the dissonance of 2019, and who better to provide a message of hope and empathy than The Secret Sis…
Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling
Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with…
Songs Of The Week 2019: Take 1
The Boss takes a quiet slip road off E Street, transporting me back to Friday night treats in the late 50s-early 60s watching cowboy films…
Songs and gongs of 2018
Our final Song Of The Week of 2018 is an encore from Anderson East's album of that name, the southern soul ballad This Too Shall Last…