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 16: Make It Rain, Real Gone, Tom Waits [329]
It's point/counterpoint on Song by Song again, as Martin and Sam divide over Waits's song of loss and yearning. Whether this is a pure form of a classic sentiment or an unnecessary retread of predictable tropes gets turned over, alongside a rare Tom Waits cover for the interval track.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Make It Rain, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)
Make It Rain, Live at Sidney Opera House, Spinefex Gum (2019)
Make It Rain, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)
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