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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 3 hours 32 minutes
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episode 1: Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen), Small Change, Tom Waits [036]
Sam and Martin welcome Night Vale writer Jeffrey Cranor to this first track from season four of Song by Song, ploughing straight into Waits's Aussie-faux-bo song with instant disagreement and conflict. It's good to be back... Duality of tone and...
episode 11: Spare Parts II And Closing, Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [035]
It's the end of the night, time to thank the band, stack up the chairs and bid farewell to our friends here at Raphael's Silver Cloud Lounge as Song by Song concludes its third season and heads off into the night. Rounding up discussions over...
episode 10: Big Joe And Phantom 309, Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [034]
Keep your cool, Waitsheads, Song by Song is still here and still committed, we’re just starting with the original Red Sovine track before heading into Waits’s cover of Big Joe’s story. Strange goings-on on the road are dealt with by our...
episode 9: Nobody, Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [033]
More somethings from our somebodies Martin, Sam and Andrea, as Waits turns down the lights and the tempo with a simple yet soulful ballad of loss and longing. With some curiosity as to where his songwriting is and where it might be going, the...
episode 8: Spare Parts I [A Nocturnal Emission], Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [032]
For the final tracks of Nighthawks, Sam and Marti…
episode 7: Putnam County, Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [031]
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episode 5: Nighthawk Postcards (from Easystreet), Nighthawks At The Diner, Tom Waits [029]
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