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    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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    Hang on St Christopher, Big Time [film], Tom Waits [164] Nov 14, 2018
    Show notes

    Back on the road with Tom Waits, Martin and Sam struggle with the sound effects breaking into the music, embrace the driving bass line in this live version and note how awful it is celebrating a birthday around actors.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Hang On St. Christopher, Big Time (film), Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Shore Leave, Big Time [film], Tom Waits [163] Nov 12, 2018
    Show notes

    Regular Big Time contributor Philippa Spanos returns for her third visit, laying out the physical space described by Waits in the next film-only version of Shore Leave. Back "in the studio", Sam and Martin talk about the scale and strength of Waits's voice in this track, as both a singer and a screamer.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Shore Leave, Big Time (film), Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Franks Wild Years, Big Time [film], Tom Waits [162] Nov 07, 2018
    Show notes

    As we dive into the first of the Big Time film-only tracks, Martin and Sam look at the imagery in the film as well as the looser feel of the lyrics in this later interpretation of the life of Frank O'Brien.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Frank's Wild Years, Big Time (film), Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Time, Big Time, Tom Waits [161] Nov 05, 2018
    Show notes

    As we reach the end of the album, Waits produces a great version of this quiet mournful tune, for once communicating the meaning and poetry of the lyrics in a clearer and more connected way.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Time, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Gun Street Girl, Big Time, Tom Waits [160] Oct 31, 2018
    Show notes

    Sam and Martin head into the final tracks of the Big Time album struggling with the energy of this version of Gun Street Girl, as well as questioning the purpose of a narrative song that seems to be uninterested in its own narrative.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Gun Street Girl, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Clap Hands, Big Time, Tom Waits [159] Oct 29, 2018
    Show notes

    Helen Zaltzman returns to take another listen to this track from Rain Dogs, now with 100% more terrifying childcatcher. More deprioritised lyrics here, and as Waits works more to enhance the sinister feel of the song, we discuss some of its limitations as a piece of writing.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Clap Hands, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Telephone Call from Istanbul, Big Time, Tom Waits [158] Oct 24, 2018
    Show notes

    Having already cited it as a strong reinterpretation several times throughout this season, Martin and Sam celebrate this party version of Waits's weird telephone call.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Telephone Call From Istanbul, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Ruby's Arms, Big Time, Tom Waits [157] Oct 22, 2018
    Show notes

    Returning from Heartattack & Vine, Vera Chok delivers her report for this live version of Ruby's arms, angry at the recapitulation of the disconnected dismissive attitude Waits has towards Ruby. Meanwhile Martin struggles with the cognitive dissonance of critical analysis and Sam disses Ribot's horn.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Ruby's Arms, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Johnsburg, Illinois, Big Time, Tom Waits [156] Oct 17, 2018
    Show notes

    Cub reporter Philippa Spanos returns to revisit another Swordfishtrombones track, the tender ballad for his wife Kathleen, now with added concluding harmony! Back at the SbS ranch, Martin and Sam think about Waits's vocal shift upwards, theorise about Brennan's attitude to his sentimentality, and again consider the space between the performer and a silent (and attentive) live audience.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Johnsburg, Illinois, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

    Train Song, Big Time, Tom Waits [155] Oct 15, 2018
    Show notes

    Sam once again starts off an episode with an extended theory about the dramatic structure that lives between this song and the dumb story about conception-by-musket… if you'd like to skip this, please begin the episode at the two-minute mark. Meanwhile, Martin pulls things back to more mainstream discussion about Tom's weird flat hands. P.s the song is beautiful.

    Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order.

    website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com

    Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Train Song, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988)

    We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

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