Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 4
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Songbird: Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) Christine McVie’s maiden name was Perfect, and her...
- Sep 25
Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 3
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...
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- Jun 25
Songs Of The Week 2022: Take 2
Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Spit Of You: Sam Fender Indie rocker Sam Fender’s piercing observations on his North Shields roots...
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- Mar 26
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...
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- Dec 24, 2021
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...
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- Dec 16, 2021
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...
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- Dec 13, 2021
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...
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- Sep 25, 2021
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...
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- Jun 27, 2021
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...
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- Mar 27, 2021
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...
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- Feb 27, 2021
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...
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- Dec 24, 2020
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...
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- Dec 19, 2020
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…
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- Aug 30, 2020
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
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- May 16, 2020
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
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- Apr 27, 2020
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…
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- Apr 17, 2020
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…
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- Feb 17, 2020
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…
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- Dec 29, 2019
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…
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- Jul 31, 2019
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…
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- Jul 8, 2019
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…
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- Dec 27, 2018
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…
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- Dec 30, 2017
Six of the best from our 2017 Songs Of The Week playlist
We at Here Comes The Song have bombarded contributors, subscribers, readers and listeners with our Songs Of The Week by Twitter, Facebook…
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- Dec 16, 2017
'Tis the season to be different: an alternative festive playlist
Presenting an alternative festive playlist… to show there's more to Christmas music than Noddy Holder, Roy Wood, Shakin’ Stevens and that…
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- Oct 9, 2017
Flipside of The Beatles: From The Liverbirds to Rory Storm
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…
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- Aug 14, 2017
Indelible mark of Zevon: 10 more from the songwriter's songwriter
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…
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- Jul 17, 2017
They say it's your birthday: 10 songs for a best wishes list
From their debut album Life’s Too Good. The Icelandic band fronted by Bjork are classed as alternative/indie; it's certainly alternative but
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- Apr 11, 2017
London Recalling: 10 songs with capital locations in their title
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
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- Mar 22, 2017
The name-droppers: 10 songs that put the list into playlist
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…
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- Mar 15, 2017
Meet The Parentheses: 10 songs with brackets in the title
History tells us the Faces were falling apart by 1974, brought low by Ronnie Lane’s departure. Tellingly, for this final single they were…
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- Jan 19, 2017
Welcome Mr Trump: A Playlist For The New President
‘There are those who build walls,’ sings Browne on Standing On The Breach, ‘and those who open doors.’ Don’t know which person or what part…
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- Jan 19, 2017
Wish They Were Still Here: Cherished Songs Of The Departed
One of the all-time great storytellers, the Texan elder statesman paints extraordinary pictures about ordinary people and situations. This…
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- Jan 18, 2017
Got It Covered: My 10 Favourite Renditions
One of the greatest pop songs of all time by one of the greatest singers covering yet another all-time great in Otis Redding. It couldn’t…
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