I missed a couple weeks, but this week I remembered! It's Sunday Three Songs!
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a well-known/popular song you love
John Cougar Mellencamp — "Small Town". I've always quibbled with the "taught to fear Jesus in a small town" line, I'm not very good at christianity but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to fear Jesus per se ("fearing God" being a subtly different thing); but at least unlike a certain other song about small towns that's been In The Discourse lately, ol' Johnny doesn't endorse lynching, and he even makes a point of saying he's "got nothin' against a big town."
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a song you think is overlooked or underrated
I was tempted to pick a few other songs from The Life of the World to Come, especially the ominous "1 Samuel 15:23" or the absolute banger "Psalms 40:2", but ultimately the unsettling "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace" and its serene, elegiac, Rian-Johnson-directed music video took the spot.
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a good song you just heard of for the first time this week
Corinne Bailey Rae — "New York Transit Queen", an ebullient, punky explosion. You're already bopping your head along to the beat, don't lie. If, like me, you had previously really only known Bailey Rae from her cameo in the posthumous Johnny Case "God's Gonna Cut You Down" video — or if you were hipper than me and knew her pre-2023 work, which seems to be largely jazzy R&B, great stuff — don't worry, because she's going in a totally new direction now anyway.
Don't forget to post your Sunday Three Songs!