As we enter 2023, Sam and Martin take a quick rummage through the emails, tweets and carrier pigeon letters the listeners have sent in over the last year, getting your take on lyrical and musical elements we may have missed, as well as a bunch of other thoughts and considerations.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Heartattack And Vine, Heartattack And Vine, Tom Waits (1980)
A Little Rain, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992)
Starving In The Belly Of A Whale, Blood Money, Tom Waits (2002)
Cape Cod Times story - Man swallowed by Whale
Just The Way We Are Boys, unreleased Woyzeck song, Tom Waits (2000)
Hoist That Rag, Real Gone, Tom Waits (2004)
Sins Of My Father, Real Gone, Tom Waits (2004)
Bad As Me, Spirit In The Room, Tom Jones (2012)
Bad As Me, live at the San Diego House Of Blues, Tom Jones (2014)
Day After Tomorrow, Real Gone, Tom Waits (2004)
Tom Waits on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2006)
Going Fetal, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, The Eels (2005)
New live tracks from the 2022 Anniversary Editions of Alice and Blood Money
Grave Diggers: Tom Waits, compilation EP (2022/various)
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