‘Band of Gold’

Freda Payne blows the roof off in a song that offers hidden backstory galore

Originally, I planned to title this series Song of the Day. When I realized how overwhelming that would be, I switched to Song of the Week. Had I kept that approach, we would have landed at Songs Twice A Week, which would have been charmingly clumsy.

Then, thanks in large part to Freda Payne, I stumbled onto Slayed by Voices. Because that’s really what …