Song by Song

New guest-host Alice Sanders joins to talk through her feelings for both Tom Waits and Jack Kerouac as we venture into a Beat Poetry-influenced tale of the Southern Californian roads. Please note that...

18 Nov 201515min

Martin waxes lyrical about a life on the open waves, and Sam and Anna view the whole endeavour a little more fatalistically. Perhaps that had an unpleasant experience on a ferry as small children? Son...

11 Nov 201515min

Truckin' further through Saturday Night's heart, Sam, Martin and Anna enter a tale of broken relationships on the roads of America. As Waits begins to speak about characters other than himself, the be...

4 Nov 201513min

The search for the Heart of Saturday Night continues as Martin, Anna and Sam discuss the universality (or lack thereof) of the love song in this somewhat simpler track. Is it indulgent or sparse? What...

27 Okt 201511min

Song by Song returns, now with 50% more opinion! Martin and Sam are joined by guest host Anna Turrell, to discuss the first track on Tom Waits's second album "New Coat of Paint". Fear of change, the n...

21 Okt 201512min

In this final instrumental track on Closing Time, Sam and Martin sum up their feelings about the album as well as the interesting discoveries they've made in beginning the Song by Song project. They d...

25 Sep 201518min

As we head into the final tracks of Closing Time, Martin and Sam explore the sentimental side of Waits's writing and the presence of unusual types of love in his lyrics. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz A...

24 Sep 20159min

Sam and Martin debate Waits's influences as a singer and performer and his relationship to Frank Sinatra, and the ways they break expectations of songs and draw audiences in. Marble eggs also feature ...

23 Sep 201511min