Song by Song is a podcast celebrating the music of Tom Waits, hosted by podcaster-musician Martin Zaltz Austwick and actor-musician Sam Pay. Sam and Martin set themselves the goal of listening to Tom Waits’s back catalogue from beginning to end, and devoting an episode to discussing each track. Song by Song is in no way officially linked to Tom Waits, or endorsed by Tom Waits, or associates. All excerpts are used for criticism purposes - please purchase your own copies of the music at your favourite shop, app, or platform to get the full experience and support musicians' work.
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episode 1: True Orphans pt 1 (1971-1977) - Final Season Specials
Having determined not to waste everyone's time with a comprehensive coverage of ALL of Waits's recordings... Sam and Martin return to the podcast to do exactly that. Sorry? In this first of several episodes, we consider some of the most prolific years of Waits's career, covering as many recordings as we can find between 1971 and 1977.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Getting Drunk On A Bottle / I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning, live recording, Snap Sessions - KPFK FM - Santa Monica OR Folk Arts Rare Records, w. Dave Blue (November, 1973)
Friday’s Blues, live recording, Snap Sessions - KPFK FM - Santa Monica OR Folk Arts Rare Records, w. Ray Bierl (November, 1973)
Good Night Loving Trail, Dime Store Novels vol 1 - Ebbets Field, w. Utah Phillips (1974)
Spanish is the Loving Tongue, live recording, San Diego, w. Charles Badger Clark / Bill Simon (1974)
Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes, Home Plate, Bonnie Raitt (1975)
Apartment For Rent, live recording, Mainpoint - Bryn Mawr (June 1975)
Tom Gets Hustled At 9 Ball, live recording, KWFM - Lee Furr's Studios - Tucson Arizona (1975)
Saturday Night Fish Fry, live recording, Santa Barbara, w. Louis Jordan / Ellis Walsh (February 1975)
Standing On The Corner, live recording, Agora Ballroom - Cleveland/ Ohio, w. Frank Loesser (August 1976)
What Else Is New, unreleased recording - Small Change sessions, Tom Waits (July 1976)
Stray Dog Help Yourself, unreleased recording - Small Change sessions, Tom Waits (July 1976)
Cupid, live recording, Westchester, w. Sam Cooke (1976)
Playin' Hooky, unreleased recording - Foreign Affairs sessions, Tom Waits (July/August 1977)
Scarecrow, unreleased recording - Foreign Affairs sessions, Tom Waits (July/August 1977)
A Nickle’s Worth of Dreams, unreleased recording - Foreign Affairs sessions, Tom Waits (July/August 1977)
Mr Henry, Bounced Checks/Asylum Years - Foreign Affairs sessions, Tom Waits (1977/1981)
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