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 18: Rains on Me / Take Care Of All Of My Children / Spidey's Wild Ride, Orphans, Tom Waits [377/378/379]
Some soothing, some heartbreak, and some extreme weather for Miss Yankey, as she examines another set of Orphans with Sam and Martin. Waits looks back on his Troubador years with tenderness, calls for care of the children of Seattle, and delivers a questionable hip-hop tribute.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Rains On Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Take Care Of All My Children, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Spidey's Wild Ride, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Rat's Theme, Tom Waits, from Streetwise, dir. Martin Bell (1984)
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