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 6: The Heart of Saturday Night, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [018]
Sam, Martin and Alice arrive at the album's title track, and discover that the Heart of Saturday Night is perhaps something a little less grand than one might imagine. Stumbling through the surprises, the accidental encounters and the distant...
episode 5: Diamonds On My Windshield, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [017]
New guest-host Alice Sanders joins to talk through her feelings for both Tom Waits and Jack Kerouac as we venture into a Beat Poetry-influenced tale of the Southern Californian roads. Please note that, despite Sam's insistence, Diamonds On My...
episode 4: Shiver Me Timbers, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [016]
Martin waxes lyrical about a life on the open waves, and Sam and Anna view the whole endeavour a little more fatalistically. Perhaps that had an unpleasant experience on a ferry as small children? Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two...
episode 3: Semi Suite, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [015]
Truckin' further through Saturday Night's heart, Sam, Martin and Anna enter a tale of broken relationships on the roads of America. As Waits begins to speak about characters other than himself, the beginnings of a broader style of writing starts to...
episode 2: San Diego Serenade, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [014]
The search for the Heart of Saturday Night continues as Martin, Anna and Sam discuss the universality (or lack thereof) of the love song in this somewhat simpler track. Is it indulgent or sparse? What is the deeper meaning of space and time? Has Sam...
San Diego Serenade, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [014]
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episode 1: New Coat of Paint, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [013]
Song by Song returns, now with 50% more opinion! Martin and Sam are joined by guest host Anna Turrell, to discuss the first track on Tom Waits's second album "New Coat of Paint". Fear of change, the new sound and the totally unacceptable presence of...
episode 12: Closing Time, Closing Time, Tom Waits [012]
In this final instrumental track on Closing Time, Sam and Martin sum up their feelings about the album as well as the interesting discoveries they’ve made in beginning the Song by Song project. They discuss arrangements, collaborators, lack of...
episode 11: Grapefruit Moon, Closing Time, Tom Waits [011]
As we head into the final tracks of Closing Time, Martin and Sam explore the sentimental side of Waits’s writing and the presence of unusual types of love in his lyrics. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to...
episode 10: Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love), Closing Time, Tom Waits [010]
Sam and Martin debate Waits’s influences as a singer and performer and his relationship to Frank Sinatra, and the ways they break expectations of songs and draw audiences in. Marble eggs also feature somehow. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick...