Downtown, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [071]

Episode 4 of the Song by Song podcast, hosted by Song by Song podcast, titled "Downtown, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [071]" was published on March 22, 2017 and runs 15 minutes.

March 22, 2017 ·15m · Song by Song

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Episode Description

Martin and Sam welcome Sarah Cook to the show, as Waits returns to the street life he loves (or despises?) so well. As the song explores the geography as well as the politics of the city's downtown in the 1980s, we also look at some alternate interpretations of this location, as well as Petula Clark's influence on resource-management games.

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

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Downtown, Heartattack And Vine, Tom Waits (1980)
Downtown, Petula Clark, The Best of Petula Clark (1996/1964)

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