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Rocking Chair, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [234]
This week's sees Sam & Martin at odds and Alice forced to mediate over this country-style song about boredom and ageing. Returning to Waits's 70s writing brings us back to a discussion of appropriatio...
11 Mars 202022min
Ice Cream Man, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [233]
Alice returns for our first demo-to-studio jump, as Waits either trades frozen treats for hot lovin', or just embarks on a peripatetic dairy-based romance. Song endings, the interpretation between dem...
4 Mars 202018min
Had Me A Girl, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [232]
Alice Fraser of The Bugle and The Last Post joins Martin and Sam to take a look at Waits's geocached conquest spreadsheet and the blue consequences thereof. The sexual politics of "having" and "virgin...
26 Feb 202020min
I'm Your Late Night Evening Prostitute, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [231]
Is this a tender song, a wry observation about the music industry, or a badly-placed bit of bawdy humour? Helen & Amy rejoin Martin & Sam to listen to a Tom Waits track that may have killed at the Tro...
19 Feb 202020min
Poncho's Lament, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [230]
A second week with Amy and Helen sees everyone feeling that the work is slighter and possibly understanding why this track didn't make the jump onto a studio recording. Our guests discuss with Martin ...
12 Feb 202017min
Goin' Down Slow, The Early Years vol 1, Tom Waits [229]
Helen Zaltzman returns, along with new guest host Amy Smith, to join Sam & Martin for season 16 of Song by Song. We take a trip back to Waits's earliest writing from 1971 in this album of demos and un...
5 Feb 202017min
The Early Years teaser [228a]
A quick preamble to season sixteen, as Martin and Sam prepare to go back to Waits's earliest demos, as well as a bunch of new songs from the early 70s. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbys...
22 Jan 20202min
Mailbag Episode #3
Happy New Year! It's 2020 and that means Song by Song is taking the opportunity to delve into some of the listener mail we've received over the last year or so. Check out the show notes below for more...
15 Jan 202034min
