Playlist 14.02.11

You would suppose that if Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan needed a babysitter, that they would settle on an unconventional soul. Reassuringly, Jesca Hoop from northern California got the gig. She had been raised in some unworldly religious communities in the desert, where singing was regarded as one of the greatest expressions of spirit.

And while she's now stomping around the secular world with ease, you feel that the sense of mission has never left her voice. She now lives in Manchester, she's friends with Elbow and The Eels, and her 'Snow Globe' EP is an assembly of awesome ideas.

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Mondays, ten - midnight

Playlist 14.02.11

Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Island)

The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness (Rough Trade)

Gryff Rhys - If We Were Words (Turnstile)

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town (alternative vocal) (Mercury)

Jesca Hoop - City Bird (Stage Three)

James Walbourne - Cocaine Eyes (Heavenly)

Sister Wynona Carr - Don't Miss That Train (Specialty)

PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder (Island)

Bone - In The Garden ( white)

The Human League - Never Let Me Go (Wall Of Sound)

Gryff Rhys - At The Heart Of Love (Turnstile)

Amr Diab - El Yaani (Mango)

Second Hour - Valentine's Day Special

The Marvelettes - Please Mr Postman (Motown)

ABC - Valentine's Day (Mercury)

The Undertones - Valentine's Treatment (Dojo)

Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine (Blue Note)

Bjork - Like Someone In Love (One Little Indian)

Janis Ian - At 17 (CBS)

Richard Hawley - Valentine (Mute)

Doris Duke - Since I Fell For You (Kent)

Curtis Mayfield - So In Love (Snapper)

Steve Earle - Valentine's Day (E Squared)

Al Green - LOVE (Demon)

Wolfman, Pete Docherty - For Lovers (Rough Trade)

Elvis Costello, RPO - I'm Your Toy (Demon)

Billy Bragg - Valentine's Day Is Over (CV)