A podcast about Tom Waits; track by track, episode by episode, song by song: @martinaustwick & @sampay. We're a proud member of the @StrippedMediaUK network.
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Joined August 2015
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As promised, here's the video version of our podchat with @sam_clements last month - @sampay and @martinaustwick , finally in visual form! youtu.be/pFnV6AWpYa4?si=tqXo…
One final indulgence, as @sam_clements hosts a wide-ranging discussion with @martinaustwick and @sampay about their experiences making this very bad idea of a show traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
That's all the Tom Waits we've got, so @sampay and @martinaustwick join @sam_clements of @90minfilmfest for a final chat about music, friendship, and what it takes to make a weekly podcast songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Art is subjective... but a music podcast has to come up with a final list, as @martinaustwick and @sampay discuss their personal highs and lows from the last 8 (or 50) years of Tom Waits's music traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
Forget the previous few-hundred episodes, let's just get to the heart of it: "What's your favourite Tom Waits song?" @sampay and @martinaustwick finally provide their answers songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Fun discovery while updating embeds on the website - a good (and almost complete) recording of the Alice Demos.
These weren't up when we did our Alice season, but they're worth a listen.
youtu.be/LdTAcwJC1FA?si=u0qj…
A 400+ podcast series is perhaps a little intimidating for a new/casual Tom Waits fan, so @sampay and @martinaustwick boil down some of their suggestions into a digestible format for listeners looking for a place to begin their journey songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
We’ve done our best to compile the True Orphans we talked about on the show - a few are True True Orphans that we couldn’t find, but the rest are here: songbysongpodcast.com/the-tr…
and for the tracks on YouTube (most of them) - here’s a handy playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
As the podcast attempts to achieve comprehensive coverage of all the Waits-related material, Philippa Spanos, @martinaustwick and @sampay return for a second week of music video / promo content traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
More discussion between Philippa, @sampay and @martinaustwick around the various Waits music videos from 1999 onwards songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Friends:
Yesterday I created a new tab on the website, collecting all the links to all of the unreleased Waits material we hunted down for the True Orphans series.
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Tonight we record our final episode of Song by Song. 🎉🎉🎉
Returning to her Song by Song roving-reporter role, Music-TV alumnus Philippa Spanos breaks down the first decade or so of Music Videos from Tom Waits, ably abetted by your regular DJs @martinaustwick and @sampay traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
Music Videos have often been overlooked here at Song by Song, so Philippa Spanos rejoins @sampay and @martinaustwick to dig through the space between the songs and the films of Tom Waits songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Hitting on the 2023 remasters, Polish translations of Waits and all the advantages of having an extra finger, @sampay and @martinaustwick dig through their bulging sack one last time traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
There's no shortage of things to cover in this 7th and final mailbag episode, as @martinaustwick and @sampay read and discuss points and questions from the audience over the last year songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
We dig into the persona and the performances of Waits this week, as music journalist and biographer @BarneyHoskyns breaks down his favourite songs from across the decades, and brings his perspective to help round off Song by Song's 8-year run traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
Finally getting an expert on the show, amateurs @martinaustwick and @sampay are delighted to welcome serious professional @BarneyHoskyns of "Lowside Of The Road" fame to talk about Waits as an artist, an interviewee and an all around interesting guy songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Concluding our sift through the less-known Waits material, @martinaustwick and @sampay music from 2010-2023, with more Keith Richards/Rolling Stones collaborations as well as a new setting for a significant figure of 1950s poetry traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
A final set of True Orphans brings @sampay and @martinaustwick up to the present day, covering recent live Waits performances as well as some contributions to his usual (and unusual) genres songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2…
Passing through the Orphans era of 2006, @sampay and @martinaustwick discover another week's worth of off-the-beaten-track Waits work, including some baby-screaming with Mr E traffic.libsyn.com/secure/so…
