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 15: Walk Away / If I Have To Go / Poor Little Lamb, Orphans, Tom Waits [368/369/370]
Walking back to the show only to walk away again, Jo Neary takes on another trio of Orphans with Martin and Sam. Beginning with the 90s religious material, heading back to theatre of the 80s, and then the street poetry of William Kennedy’s childhood, we also consider how Waits’s writing functions as a dusting soundtrack.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Walk Away, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
If I Have To Go, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Poor Little Lamb, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Clip from Ironweed, dir. Hector Babenco (1987)
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