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Kentucky Avenue, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [063]
As we head towards the close of this album (and bid farewell to Jen and Dave), the music and storytelling make a radical departure from the tone so far, into a nostalgic and autobiographical ballad of...
4 Tammi 201718min
Whistlin Past the Graveyard, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [062]
More lyrical density and ambiguity on this week's Song by Song, as this track flirts both with a life on the railroad as well as the bad luck omens. Sam, Dave, Jen and Martin find multiple interpretat...
28 Joulu 201617min
Wrong Side of The Road, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [061]
Trying to stay on the right side of each other, Dave, Jen, Sam and Martin get into the magical realist stylings of this witches brew of a track, examining the density of lyric writing, their integrati...
21 Joulu 201615min
$29.00, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [060]
Jen Adamthwaite and Dave Pickering from The Family Tree podcast (http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/) join Song by Song for this fifth track from Blue Valentine, to discuss the adequate musical choices...
14 Joulu 201616min
Romeo is Bleeding, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [059]
As we come to Elizabeth and Caspar's final episodes with Sam and Martin, Song by Song returns to the bleak streets of LA for the violent shooting of a Latino gang-leader. Revisiting some of the struct...
7 Joulu 201617min
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [058]
Firmly rooted in South London and unavailable for sexual engagements, Sam, Martin, Elizabeth and Caspar join Tom Waits in reading over Charlie's shoulder. Big cast this week. Elizabeth questions the s...
30 Marras 201613min
Red Shoes by the Drugstore, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [057]
Back once again with Sam, Martin, Elizabeth and Caspar, we join Waits hanging out outside the drugstore with Little Caesar and his red-shod ladyfriend. Some discussion this week of the musical environ...
23 Marras 201617min
Somewhere (from West Side Story), Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [056]
A trip to the musicals for this first episode on Blue Valentine, as Martin and Sam are joined by Caspar Salmon and Elizabeth Sankey to discuss another of Waits's rare covers. The (perhaps inevitable) ...
16 Marras 201617min
