Song by Song

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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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 19m. Bisher sind 400 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 3 hours 32 minutes

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 June 12, 2019  20m
 
 

episode 12: Black Wings, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [199]


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 June 19, 2019  20m
 
 

episode 13: Whistle Down the Wind (for Tom Jans), Bone Machine, Tom Waits [200]


We're at another anniversary, as guest host Scary Boots joins Sam & Martin for our bicentennial episode (muttermutter-onefromtheheart-mutter-nightonearth-muttermutter-whataboutthefilms-muttermutter) taking a look at this mournful ballad to locale...


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 June 26, 2019  22m
 
 

episode 14: I Don't Wanna Grow Up, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [201]


Scary, Martin & Sam return to Bone Machine for this Tom-Waits-Does-The-Ramones song about the frustrations of youth towards age. We take a look at ideas of inspiration, the evolution of punk in general and the Ramones specifically, and the value...


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 July 3, 2019  21m
 
 

episode 15: Let Me Get Up On It, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [202]


Ooh it's another little sound fragment track from Waits this week, as Scary, Martin and Sam explore the possibilities of a James Brown pun in this penultimate track from Bone Machine. With debate over seagulls vs. squeaking gears, various branding...


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 July 10, 2019  17m
 
 

episode 16: That Feel, Bone Machine, Tom Waits [203]


Sam and Martin get together (on the same continent no less!) to talk through both this track specifically as well as the album Bone Machine in general. Discussing what That Feel might be - in terms of love, religion or friendship - as well as the...


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 July 17, 2019  29m