HERE COMES THE SONG

As admirers have noted, Michell's compositions sound as if they could have been collected and sung a century ago. Except there is a subtle, thoroughly contemporary twist

McMurtry can make you smile with his wry humour but it is his snarl that commands your attention

Bridges Are All Burnt is hardly sunshiny as Wall’s rich vocal navigates a dark personal theme and Brown’s trumpet deepens the melancholy

Laura’s homage to the splendours of nearing 30 but feeling like a teenager is as celebratory as crotchets and quavers get

The stripped-back sound perfectly suits the songs that have acted as anchors through her life and will lift the spirits of all who hear them

A mouthpiece for the marginalised: no wonder this indie artist of Puerto Rican heritage received the Folk Alliance People’s Voice accolade

Phil Shaw presents his favourite 30 songs from 2024: from John Cale and MJ Lenderman to Arooj Aftab and Lemon Twigs. Plus: his top covers

Maloney’s most intimate and vulnerable collection of songs will be released on January 31, five years after her last full-length offering

The beauty of doing Desert Island Discs this way is you don’t have to tell Lauren Laverne about whether you were happy in your childhood

Written by Becky Unthank to the old American folk tune of Nettleton, it slowly builds towards a choral climax with the voices of 60 devotees

As Little says, this album was 46 years in the making: a life so thoroughly lived in has produced an outstanding set of authentic songs

The journey to self-discovery can be a perilous one and few songwriters articulate the pitfalls more eloquently than Josienne Clarke

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Giving: Cara Dillon In my pocket, I found from you A handful of our memories Cara Dillon’s mother,...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Albert’s Place: Martyn Joseph Two of my favourite songs of the year were inspired by the same...

Phil Shaw 1 California – CMAT A soaring voice, funny lyric and great tune from the excellent album Crazymad, For Me – all the work of...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Insider: Robert Vincent Who to trust? It is one of the questions of our times, whether it’s our...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Glory: Gabriels His baritone is just as spine-tingling as his falsetto. When Jacob Lusk sings, the...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Where The Song Will Find Me: Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams is still recovering from the effects...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK I Wanna Love You (But I Can’t Right Now): Bennett Wilson Poole With their eagerly anticipated...

Neil Morton We just had to see out the old year with an extra helping of Anaïs Mitchell. Our Song Of The Week at herecomesthesong.com is...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Robin: Dominie Hooper 2023 should be a landmark year for indie folk singer-songwriter Dominie...

Phil Shaw 1 Point Me Toward the Real – Ezra Furman The story of a fragile character re-entering the world after being collected from a...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Meet Me In The Silence: Susan O’Neill Irish singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill’s beguiling vocal and...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Spit Of You: Sam Fender Indie rocker Sam Fender’s piercing observations on his North Shields roots...

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...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK 4th Day Prayer: Allison Russell Allison Russell’s first solo album, Outside Child, has made such an...

Phil Shaw 1 Bloomsday – Samantha Crain Anthem to hope and a glistening beauty from the Choctaw songwriter, taking its title from James...

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...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK The Nameless: Jacob and Drinkwater Alt-folk duo Tobias ben Jacob and Lukas Drinkwater have captured...

Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Soho: vulpes (Maz O’Connor) Inhabiting the alter ego of vulpes, London-based songwriter Maz...

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...

Phil Shaw The funfair, as distinct from the carnival and circus, has provided a rich seam of material for songwriters. Surprisingly, a...

Phil Shaw 1: Love And Hate In A Different Time – Gabriels An extraordinary song for momentous times from the Los Angeles trio. Yes, there...

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…

Rhiannon Giddens always sings passionately about racial and social injustice, from slavery to civil rights. Now she takes on the gaslighters

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

Inspired by a recent Guardian piece by Alexis Petridis, listing the best 50 Bob Dylan songs, here is my (very subjective) top half-century…

In My Room: a perfect title to describe the humble songwriter’s location of necessity during the global shutdown. From their rooms they've…

A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…

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…

Cameroon’s Bamenda Highlands is a vibrant, verdant region awash with life. Rust-red tracks cut through mountainous forests that brim with…

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…

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…

We at Here Comes The Song have bombarded contributors, subscribers, readers and listeners with our Songs Of The Week by Twitter, Facebook…

Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that…

The so-called Swinging Sixties weren’t just about The Beatles. No, no, no. Here are some of the finest – and perhaps less obvious – among…

Surreal, darkly comic tale of revenge from the 1978 album Excitable Boy and the last song Warren Zevon played live, on The Late Show with…

From their debut album Life’s Too Good. The Icelandic band fronted by Bjork are classed as alternative/indie; it's certainly alternative but

There are fine homages to the pretty hilltop spot in NW3 by Madness and John and Beverley Martyn, but the former Mr Kate McGarrigle edges it

This strange 1991 single by the Irish indie band A House starts with the ‘singer’ recalling a quote: ‘All art is quite useless according to…