Jeffrey’s with Martin and Sam for a second Orphaned week, delighting in gospel music, songs of absentee fathers, and approximately 500 Bing Bangs. Waits sidesteps his irony to celebrate religion (or at least its musical traditions), we get down and dirty with a country music legend, and Jeffrey… falls in love!
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Lord I've Been Changed, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Lord I've Been Changed, from Freedom Highway, dir. Phillip King (2001)
Know I've Been Changed, Wicked Grin, John Hammond / Tom Waits (2001)
Know I've Been Changed, Great Day, Staples Singers (1975)
Tell It To Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Louise, Friends of Mine, Ramblin' Jack Elliott / Tom Waits (1998)
Lucille (aka 'a country song in 3/4 time'), Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers (1976)
The Cowboy Waltz (aka 'another country song in 3/4 time'), Asch Recordings vol 4, Woodie Guthrie (1999/?)
First Kiss, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Thousand Bing Bangs, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)
A Thousand Bingbangs, A Transparent Mask, Ken Nordine (2011)
The Movie, Devout Catalyst, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (1991)
Circus, single, Ken Nordine / Tom Waits (2019)
Funky Moped, live on TOTP, Jasper Carrot (1975)
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