EPISODE · Jun 28, 2021 · 24 MIN
Will: Tom Traubert's Blues
from The Volume Knob · host Conseil Keith Serry Inc.
Awkward Teenage Years is the name of the storytelling series that Will co-founded. You can follow them on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Twitch (?). You can also follow Will directly on Twitter and the 'gram. This week's playlist is called Songs About Blood and Whiskey (hold the blood, frankly). A list of songs about the drink and what comes after. I hope you enjoy it. Make sure you follow The Volume Knob on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or at our website volumeknob.net. And if you have a story about the song that saved your life be sure to send it to me at [email protected].
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Will's classmates voted him "most sophisticated" in his high school yearbook. He listened to jazz on vinyl; avoided keg parties. Then he heard Tom Waits' Small Change and was swept up in another kind of sophistication. The one where the man in the wrinkled suit and half-crushed hat wakes up in the morning after the night before and stumbles out into the world; arm and arm with his friends, laughing, carousing and drinking. Heavily. Will's story is about what happens when you learn that maybe, just maybe, the legend of the American drunk isn't as romantic as it sounds on a Tom Waits record; and what happens after that.
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