HERE COMES THE SONG

My favourite concert of 2025 featured the same artist as last year, Brandi Carlile. She and her band wowed London’s Drury Lane theatre in 2024. When she repeated the feat this year, I didn’t even have to leave the house. Her five-song performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk in Washington is proving a YouTube phenomenon, and her first offering, A War With Time, from latest album Returning To Myself, is our Song Of The Week at herecomesthesong.com.

The wonder of Jenn Wasner’s voice can trick the listener into underplaying the emotional turmoil behind the lyrics. The Life You Save, her third album under the alias Flock Of Dimes, is her proudest solo work. Our Song Of The Week at herecomesthesong.com is the hypnotic Keep Me In The Dark, which she regards as perhaps her finest ever composition.

The opportunity to honour two heroes with one song was too inviting to miss for jazz-blues artist Jon Batiste. The late Ray Charles first recorded Lonely Avenue in 1956 and it is covered by Batiste on his new album, Big Money, in the company of a living legend, Randy Newman. The wonderfully soulful duet is our Song Of The Week at herecomesthesong.com.