Actor/musician David Ahmad joins Sam and Martin to discuss the religious material, consider the game-of-telephone lineage of folk classics, and celebrate this (perhaps overlooked) track of sorrow and loss.
Note: we mention Mark Rylance this episode; between recording and release, his brother Jonathan was killed - sympathies from all of us for this loss.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Trampled Rose, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)
Trampled Rose, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)
If It Wasn't For Dicky, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, Lead Belly (1941-47)
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, single, The Weavers (1951)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night, MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana (1994)
The Phantom of the Open trailer, via YouTube (dir. Craig Roberts, 2021)
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