Trying to ID this song, 'There's not a Sound"

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There’s an app described in this thread called “Shazam”, which has a MacOS version (not mentioned in the thread, but available at the link mentioned).

I just sicced it on this song which I digitized from cassette audiotape a decade or so ago. Doesn’t recognize.

The first line is ““There’s not a sound in this unhopeful world”” and it has several other oughta-be key-identifier lyrics like “pawned all our souvenirs” and “it seems Daddy can’t keep still”.

Can’t find any hits on the lyrics.

It was apparently taped from WBAI broadcasts of folks music and whowever this was would be in the general ilk of Richard and Linda Thompson, Andy Irvine, Richard Meyer, the band Steeleye Span, Jean Ritchie, Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt, John Roberts and Tony Barrand – those being other performers on other tracks from that cassette tape that I’ve successfully identified.

If it sounds familiar to you or remisicent of anyone’s style or voice, let me know. (And obviously if you actually know who this is or the name of the song, tell me!)

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Someone on another board where I asked about posted:

It does in fact sound somewhere between country and rock more than it sounds like folk. The other tunes on the home-recorded cassette were from the bands mentioned above, which may be misleading for trying to trace this one. Now that this person mentions it, I’m thinking that the guitar playing reminds me a litltle of the song “Man of Constant Sorrow” as played in O Brother, Where Art Thou. Not the tempo, but the “feel” of it.

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The voice is familiar. Almost sounds like Rodriguez. I’ll have to do some checking in the morning.

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It’s not Rodriguez, or at least, not any of his recorded tracks. Also the voice sounds more like Michael Bublé than Rodriguez - more jazzy than bluesy/folksy, IYKWIM. It would sound the same backed by a jazzy piano rather than a guitar, kind of thing.