Thom Yorke Pays Homage to Bridget St. John

The smoky, gentle folksinger doesn’t sound much like Radiohead — or does she?

St. Brigid of Ireland (public domain)

When my newsfeed featured the New Musical Express headline, “Thom Yorke selects IDLES, Miles Davis and more for new Sonos mix” (whose subtitle asks “what is music or any art in such a time of death, violence and horror?”), I thought, “Just what I need to escape…