Our latest guest-host Jenny Owen Youngs joins us as Waits goes full-spiritual for this street-corner preacher scream. We chat about ironic or revolutionary attitudes to religion in LA and Scotland, some of our own religious experiences in music, and the role of coughing in exorcisms.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Jesus Gonna Be Here, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992)
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam, Enter The Vaselines, The Vaselines (1987/2009)
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam, MTV Unplugged in New York, Nirvana (1994)
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