I ’m just a soul trapped in this circuitry.” The voice singing those lyrics is raw and plaintive, dipping into blue notes. A lone acoustic guitar chugs behind it, punctuating the vocal phrases with ...

It’s not every song that has ties to Madonna, Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, and Jeff Buckley, as well as a TV program that was at one time the most popular in the world. But “Teardrop”—the ...