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 19: Crazy 'Bout My Baby / Down There By The Train / King Kong, Orphans, Tom Waits [380/381/382]
Having dealt with all the Brawlers, Sam and Martin dig into the bonus disc of Orphans with a Fats Waller cover, music first performed by Johnny Cash, and a synopsis of King Kong. We discuss Waits’s capability as a pianist, his treatment of history’s villains, and consider his cover of an iconic outsider-artist musician.
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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Crazy 'Bout My Baby, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Down There By The Train, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
King Kong, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
King Kong, Yip Jump Music, Daniel Johnston (1983)
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