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 8: "He's A Mensch" - Barney Hoskyns on the music of Tom Waits - Final Season Specials
We're delighted to bring you an extended interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Tom Waits, Barney Hoskyns. Bouncing through a selection of Waits's material from the 70s to the present day, we discuss what it's like to interview and write about artists, what changed (and stayed the same) in Waits's music, and how you should always take a suggestion from Nick Cave seriously.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Ol' 55, Closing Time, Tom Waits (1973)
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen), Small Change, Tom Waits (1976)
Shore Leave, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits (1983)
Goin' Out West, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992)
Take It With Me, Mule Variations, Tom Waits (1999)
Satisfied, Bad As Me, Tom Waits (2011)